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The Little Tennessee Watershed Association (LTWA) is a conservation organization formed in 1993 in Franklin, NC to protect and restore the health and waters of the Little Tennessee River and its tributaries upstream of the Fontana reservoir through monitoring, education, habitat restoration, and citizen action.

Scope of activity

The Little Tennessee River flows from its headwaters in northern Rabun County, GA, northward into southwestern North Carolina, where it enters the Fontana Reservoir in Swain County before emptying into the Tennessee River in Loudon County, Tenn.[1] The LTWA exists to protect and restore the health of the Little Tennessee through monitoring, education, habitat restoration and citizen action.[2] The organization's website states that it is "an active member in a network of river organizations sharing community based science for the benefit of all, and in a landscape in which all river ecosystems retain their intact natural flows in their historic condition."[3]

The LTWA has maintained a consistentbiomonitoring project to observe the quality of biodiversity throughout the watershed, the data from which stretches back 20 years.[4] It has also organized and implemented wetland restoration projects in Macon County.[5]

Organizational structure

The LTWA's board of directors comprises:

  • Dr. Don Dewhurst
  • Vic Greene
  • Ryan Griffith

The LTWA's staff members are:

  • Jenny Sanders, Executive Director
  • Dr. Bill McLarney, Biomonitoring Program Director
  • Jason Meador, Watershed Program Coordinator
  • Sharon Willard, Bookkeeper[3]

Cooperation with LTLT

The LTWA often works closely with the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee (also based in Franklin), on conservation projects and restoration efforts.[5] The LTLT is dedicated to preserving the landscape of the upper upper Little Tennessee and Hiwasee River Valleys by promoting conservation easements and purchasing at-risk properties.[6]

References

  1. ^ Franklin, North Carolina. The Franklin Press Online. The local newspaper of Macon County, North Carolina
  2. ^ Franklin, North Carolina. The Franklin Press Online. The local newspaper of Macon County, North Carolina
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference autogenerated2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ The Franklin Press Online
  5. ^ a b Franklin, North Carolina. The Franklin Press Online. The local newspaper of Macon County, North Carolina
  6. ^ Our Org
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