03427nam 2200649Ia 450 991078941310332120210823193958.01-4696-0315-20-8078-7793-X(CKB)2670000000095353(EBL)716592(OCoLC)731646880(SSID)ssj0000522143(PQKBManifestationID)11336243(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000522143(PQKBWorkID)10527292(PQKB)11061884(StDuBDS)EDZ0000244079(OCoLC)733806076(MdBmJHUP)muse23468(Au-PeEL)EBL716592(CaPaEBR)ebr10478393(CaONFJC)MIL930817(MiAaPQ)EBC716592(EXLCZ)99267000000009535320101115d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDucktown smoke[electronic resource] the fight over one of the south's greatest environmental disasters /Duncan MaysillesChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20111 online resource (344 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4696-2987-9 0-8078-3459-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : the view from the mountain -- The setting, the Cherokees, and the first era of Ducktown mining, 1843-1878 -- The revival of Ducktown mining and the first smoke suits, 1890-1903 -- The farmers and the copper companies wage battle in the Tennessee courts -- Georgia enters the fray -- The Ducktown desert and Georgia's first smoke suit -- Will Shippen, forestry, and Georgia's second smoke suit, 1905-1907 -- Attorney general Hart, the National Farmers Union, and the search for a remedy, 1907-1910 -- The smoke injunction and the great war, 1914-1918 -- Power dams, whitewater rafting, and the reclamation of the Ducktown desert, 1916-2010 -- Epilogue : the view from the mountain.It is hard to make a desert in a place that receives sixty inches of rain each year. But after decades of copper mining, all that remained of the old hardwood forests in the Ducktown Mining District of the southern Appalachian Mountains was a fifty-square mile barren expanse of heavily gullied red hills--a landscape created by sulfur dioxide smoke from copper smelting and destructive logging practices. In Ducktown Smoke, Duncan Maysilles examines this environmental disaster, one of the worst the South has experienced, and its impact on environmental law and Appalachian conservation.Copper mines and miningEnvironmental aspectsTennesseeDucktown RegionLiability for environmental damagesAppalachian Region, SouthernLiability for environmental damagesTennesseeDucktown RegionGeorgiaTrials, litigation, etcDucktown Mining DistrictCopper mines and miningEnvironmental aspectsLiability for environmental damagesLiability for environmental damages333.76/513709768875Maysilles Duncan1575198MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789413103321Ducktown smoke3851969UNINA