WATR Column
Watershed Activities Thoroughly ReviewedNovember 2006 – May 2019
In Memory of Tom Bennett
The articles on this site were written by the late Tom Bennett, a then retired newsman and Hiwassee River Watershed Coalition member and volunteer. Tom lived with wife, Lorraine Bennett in the Martins Creek Community near Murphy, N.C. Tom was completely dedicated to improving and protecting the quality of rivers, lakes, streams and mountains in the Hiwassee River watershed.
The wilderness must be saved for all to see
Horace Kephart said, “Man is ennobled by the pioneer experience and by an engagement with the wilderness.” Camping in the woods was very, very big with him.
The State of the Water 2018
An exacting, uncompromising scientist and her staff doggedly interpolate data from disparate sources in order to reach accurate conclusions.
Scott Pruitt’s watershed moment
What critics term Scott Pruitt’s brazen acts of extravagance as 14th administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency are what sparked multiple investigations, according to the river of Internet coverage.
The Solid Waste principles of Sole Commissioner Lamar Paris
Lamar Paris is the influential and respected fifth-term commissioner serving in his 18th year as the governing authority of this county of 22,267 souls at the roof of Georgia.
The State of the Water 2017
HRWC is not-for-profit, and serving no pharmaceutical giant. Its data gathering is broad-based and uncompromisingly tough. And no matter what else is going on around it, it’s driven to achieve its mission – to accurately post true records of the quality of water.
One North Carolina mountain stream and the American people
Laurel Creek is 3,900 feet above sea level in the Nantahala National Forest in far western North Carolina, and 1,000 feet above any roadway.
The startling contrasts at Georgia’s Mining Gap
Bell Mountain is in the Appalachians and it immediately drains one of the particularly beautiful federal TVA impoundments of the Hiwassee River called Lake Chatuge.
The “State of the Water” in the Hiwassee River watershed
If you’re going to save a river on this globe from human neglect, you could choose no better than the Hiwassee.
Gracious annual ad valorem and fire taxes are in place for a private inholding
What’s TOBBELL LLC’s true intent up there? Is it to build and enjoy primitive cabins? Or to do commercial logging for a wood chip mill?