Rivers Under Siege: The Troubled Saga of West Tennessee Wetlands

by Jim W. Johnson and Mr. Jim W. Johnson M.S.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572334908
• ISBN13: 9781572334908
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.0"