The snail darter (Percina tanasi) is a small species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a darter from the subfamily Etheostomatinae, part of the family Percidae...
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The snail darter controversy related to the discovery in 1973 of an endangered species during the construction of the Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee...
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Tellico Dam (section Discovery of the snail darter)
endangered snail darter fish species. Environmentalist groups took the TVA to court as a means to halt the project and protect the snail darter. The court...
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to "introduce some flexibility into the Endangered Species Act". The snail darter case was important for the ESA because it made Congress realize how powerful...
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interpretation of the Endangered Species Act of 1973. After the discovery of the snail darter fish in the Little Tennessee River in August 1973, a lawsuit was filed...
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snail is a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name snail...
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love dart (also known as a gypsobelum, shooting darts, or just as darts) is a sharp, calcareous or chitinous dart which some hermaphroditic land snails and...
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Geographic Expedition of 1869 "Rain follows the plow" St. Francis Dam Snail darter controversy Stewart Lee Udall Teton Dam William Mulholland In a review...
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regulations put forth in the Act. Notably, in 1978 the listing of a tiny fish (snail darter) shut down for several years construction of a dam that was already underway...
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Etnier, 1976 (Snail darter) Percina uranidea D. S. Jordan & Gilbert, 1887 (Stargazing darter) Percina vigil O. P. Hay, 1882 (Saddleback darter) Percina williamsi...
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Tellico Dam project was initially delayed because of concern over the snail darter, a small ray-finned fish which had been discovered in the Little Tennessee...
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likened to a dart or a harpoon, is barbed and can be extended some distance out from the head of the snail at the end of the proboscis. Cone snail venoms are...
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decision to bury the oak toad habitat on the island by referring to the Snail darter controversy. Twilly renames Stoat's dog after guitarist Roger McGuinn...
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The dam's completion had been halted over concerns for the endangered snail darter, which lived in the river. After numerous failed attempts to amend the...
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Laloux Snail darter, a small fish native to east Tennessee Snail Maze, a 1986 video game by Sega, part of the Sega Master System Snail kite, Rostrhamus...
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habitat of the snail darter would delay construction of the Tellico Dam for two years; the dam would eventually be constructed and the snail darter population...
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the subject of national controversy in the 1970s when the endangered snail darter fish was reported to be affected by the project. After lawsuits by environmental...
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Tennessee because of the danger posed to an endangered species of fish, the snail darter. The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court decision...
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thought of our crew taking a 600-year round trip just to bring back a snail darter wasn't all that thrilling," explained Nimoy. The director read a book...
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Polymita picta (redirect from Painted snail)
also known as the Cuban painted snail, or the oriente tree snail, is a species of large, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod...
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Kassebaum, daughter of Kansas Governor Alf Landon, on December 7, 1996. Snail darter controversy “Early Implementation of the Clean Air Act of 1970 in California...
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Look up Dart, dart, or DART in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dart or DART may refer to: Dart, the equipment in the game of darts Dart (comics), an Image...
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the subject of national controversy in the 1970s when the endangered snail darter fish was reported to be affected by the project. After lawsuits by environmental...
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boschungi (slackwater darter) Etheostoma nuchale (watercress darter) Etheostoma okaloosae (Okaloosa darter) Etheostoma wapiti (boulder darter) Eucyclogobius...
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which involved the Endangered Species Act of 1973 and a fish called the snail darter. As part of the project, the TVA acquired additional land above the high...
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environmental controversy during the 1970s because of the discovery of the snail darter, an endangered species. It was the first major legal challenge to the...
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who stalled the project with the snail-darter controversy in 1975.: 190 In his memoir, he stated, "the snail darter is good for exactly nothing.": 190 ...
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the subject of national controversy in the 1970s when the endangered snail darter fish was reported to be affected by the project. After lawsuits by environmental...
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Helix pomatia (redirect from Burgundy snail)
pomatia, known as the Roman snail, Burgundy snail, or escargot, is a species of large, air-breathing stylommatophoran land snail native to Europe. It is characterized...
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analysis, the project was found to threaten an endangered species. The snail darter controversy delayed completion of the dam for some time. According to...
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