Author: William J. WolfePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Floodplains
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Recent Sedimentation and Surface-water Flow Patterns on the Flood Plain of the North Fork Forked Deer River, Dyer County, Tennessee
Author: William J. WolfePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Floodplains
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Publications of the Geological Survey
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Rivers Under Siege
Author: Jim W. JohnsonPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572334908
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Rivers under Siege is a wrenching firsthand account of how human interventions, often well intentioned, have wreaked havoc on West Tennessee's fragile wetlands. For more than a century, farmers and developers tried to tame the rivers as they became clogged with sand and debris, thereby increasing flooding. Building levees and changing the course of the rivers from meandering streams to straight-line channels, developers only made matters worse. Yet the response to failure was always to try to subdue nature, to dig even bigger channels and construct even more levees-an effort that reached its sorry culmination in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' massive West Tennessee Tributaries Project during the 1960s. As a result, the rivers' natural hydrology descended into chaos, devastating the plant and animal ecology of the region's wetlands. Crops and trees died from summer flooding, as much of the land turned into useless, stagnant swamps. The author was one of a small group of state waterfowl managers who saw it all happen, most sadly within the Obion-Forked Deer river system and at Reelfoot Lake. After much trial and error, Johnson and his colleagues in the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency began by the 1980s to abandon their old methods, resorting to management procedures more in line with the natural contours of the floodplains and the natural behavior of rivers. Preaching their new stewardship philosophy to anyone who might listen-their supervisors, duck hunters, conservationists, politicians, federal agencies-they were often ignored. The campaign dragged on for twenty years before an innovative and rational plan came from the Governor's Office and gained wide support. But then, too, that plan fell prey to politics, legal wrangling, self-interest, hardheadedness, and tradition. Yet, despite such heartbreaking setbacks, the author points to hopeful signs that West Tennessee's historic wetlands might yet be recovered for the benefit of all who use them and recognize their vital importance. Jim W. Johnson, now retired, was for many years a lands management biologist with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. He was responsible for the overall supervision and coordination of thirteen wildlife management areas and refuges, primarily for waterfowl, in northwest Tennessee.
Water-resources Investigations Report
Author: National Water Summary on Wetland Resources
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN: 9780607856965
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Management and Restoration of Fluvial Systems with Broad Historical Changes and Human Impacts
Author: L. Allan JamesPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813724511
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Flood-plain and Channel Aggradation at Selected Bridge Sites in the Iowa and Skunk River Basins, Iowa
Author: David A. EashPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sedimentation and deposition
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Pinson Mounds
Author: Robert C. Mainfort Jr.Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1557286396
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Pinson Mounds: Middle Woodland Ceremonialism in the Midsouth is a comprehensive overview and reinterpretation of the largest Middle Woodland mound complex in the Southeast. Located in west Tennessee about ten miles south of Jackson, the Pinson Mounds complex includes at least thirteen mounds, a geometric earthen embankment, and contemporary short-term occupation areas within an area of about four hundred acres. A unique feature of Pinson Mounds is the presence of five large, rectangular platform mounds from eight to seventy-two feet in height. Around A.D. 100, Pinson Mounds was a pilgrimage center that drew visitors from well beyond the local population and accommodated many distinct cultural groups and people of varied social stations. Stylistically nonlocal ceramics have been found in virtually every excavated locality, all together representing a large portion of the Southeast. Along with an overview of this important and unique mound complex, Pinson Mounds also provides a reassessment of roughly contemporary centers in the greater Midsouth and Lower Mississippi Valley and challenges past interpretations of the Hopewell phenomenon in the region.