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reflections

Chattooga Reflections: 50 Years of Wild & Scenic Designation in Context is a special edition publication composed by the Chattooga Conservancy. As 2024 ended, the Chattooga River marked 50 years of Wild & Scenic designation, celebrating a legacy of conservation. Now, new challenges and evolving environmental policies shape the future of the river. “Reflections” honors the Chattooga’s past while exploring critical work needed to safeguard its future.

Winter 2024/2025

Indigenous Land Stewardship | Wild & Scenic Backstory | Impacts of Designation | Threats & Accomplishments | The Future

The Chattooga

QUARTERLY

The Chattooga Quarterly is an acclaimed publication composed and published by the Chattooga Conservancy from 1994-2019. Issues feature articles about the Chattooga watershed’s natural and cultural history and updates on program work. If you would like printed copies of past issues, please contact us at info@chattoogariver.org.

**Click here for a searchable Index of issues and articles**

Fall 2019

NEPA | Native Canebrakes | Fighting Invasive Kudzu | Watershed Update

Winter 2018/2019

Trillium persistens | Tallulah Gorge | How the Drought of 1925 Saved the Chattooga River | Watershed Update

Winter 2017

Chattooga Elk | Wildfires In Our Watersheds | Watershed Update

Spring/Summer Solstice 2016

The Evolution of a Wilderness Management

Spring 2015

The Life of a Caddis Fly | The Lost Village of Stecoe

Summer 2013

The Cherokee Indian Trader | Wolf Mountain Cell Tower

Winter 2012

Assisted Migration & The Stinking Cedar | A Walk In The Park | Dad Brewer's Grist Mil| John Bachman, Naturalist & Social Activist

Fall/Winter 2011

Mussels in the Chattooga River | The Weeks Act Remembered | Oconostota, Great Warrior of Chota

Spring 2011

Chub Wall, Outlaw from Dicks Creek | Biomass| Rhapsody for Stekoa Creek Park

Summer/Fall Equinox 2010

Background of the Forest Protest | Story of ``Forest Green`` - Part 2 | Pig Roast for the Park

Winter/Spring Equinox 2010

The Perfect Storm | The Story of ``Forest Green`` - Part 1| Tinkle of Bell Teams Fade

Fall 2009

Coyotes | Bull Sluice: ``The Rock Wall`` | Concert: Benefit for Stekoa Park

Spring/Summer 2009

The Blue Ridge Railroad | The Whetstone Quadrangle | William Bartram's Travels

Fall/Winter 2008

Civilization Conservation Corps | Oconee Station | Bird Walk

Summer 2008

The Last Wild River | Junior Crowe Interview | Monarch Watch

Winter/Spring 2008

Peregrine Falcons | Tamassee Quad | Bird Walk

Summer/Fall 2007

Eastern Wild Turkeys | Pension Protection Act | A Champion of Big Trees | Trail of Tears

Spring 2007

Walhalla Watershed | Trailing Issaqueena | Woodall Shoals

Fall/Winter 2006/2007

Wild Hogs in the Watershed | Drover’s Road

Summer 2006

Bartram's Mountain Magnolia | The Looming Water Crisis | Dark River of Deliverance

Spring 2006

The Smoking Gun | Farming and the Global Economy | Bears and Hogs

Winter 2006

Drovers Road

Fall 2005

Keeping it Wild: Representative John Lewis | Chattooga River Farm | Stekoa Creek Water Monitoring Project | Jim Fisher, Long Hunter

Summer 2005

Interstate 3 | ``Major`` Lewis Redmond | Monsanto Re-engineers Nature | Endangered Plants in the Watershed

Spring 2005

The Amazing Rhododendron | Alexander Cuming | Nature's Composers

Winter 2005

Hamilton v. Jefferson | Bush Backs Big Business | Evolution of the Forest Service | The Walton War

Fall 2004

Stekoa Creek: A Plan for Restoration | Conservation Easements | Deconstruction of Environmental Policy | Who Was General Andrew Pickens?

Summer 2004

Green Alert! Roadless Areas Threatened | Rare Chattooga Canoe Recovered | Native Americans in the Watershed | Bob Benge, Chickamauga Warrior

Spring 2004

The Wild and Scenic Chattooga River | Earth Day | North American River Otter | Chattooga: Book Review | Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Strategic Plan

Winter 2004

Corporations Without Conscience | Whose Land Is It Anyway? | Factory Beef

Fall 2003

Booger Dance | The Legend of Mary Jeff | Halloween Puzzles

Summer 2003

Forest Plan Comments | The Controversy of ATVs on Public Lands | Invasive Plants Threaten Native Ecosystems

Spring 2003

Solstice Celebration & Fundraiser | Restoring Food Systems | Fueling the Future | ``Green`` Building

Winter 2003

Grid-Free Livin' | MoreSun Solar Powered Enterprises | Yard Birds and Yurt | Black Bears

Fall 2002

Dr. Eugene Odom: Father of Modern Ecology | Interview with Dr. Odom | Early Successional Habitat vs. Old Growth | Administration Attacks Environmental Policy | Overpopulation

Summer 2002

Spring 2002

Tragedy of the Commons | Save Our Hemlocks! | Bull Pen Mill Restoration | Eastern Cougars: Science, Skepticism, and Scat | Conservation Fair

Winter 2002

Cerulean Warbler: To List or Not to List! | Sudden Oak Death: Is It Headed East? | The American Chestnut Tree | Mining of the National Forest | Biomass: A Cleaner Alternative

Fall 2001

Thoughts in the Presence of Fear | Needed: Economic Security | Environmental Education, Inc. | Litigation Against Logging: Then & Now

Spring/Summer 2001

Green Salamander | Politics of Energy | Green Clippings | Urban Growth Myths

Winter 2001

Re-Thinking Forest Preservation | Roadless Area Rulemaking Facts | Tax Incentives for Conservation | League of Conservation Voters Report | Total Maximum Daily Loads

Spring 2000

Vanished Birds | Ecology of the White Oak | Rabun County Power Line Controversy

Summer/Fall 2000

Rattlesnakes in the Chattooga Watershed | Commercial Logging and Wildfire Prevention | Please...Don't Pick the Wildflowers-- Dammit! | Chattooga Watershed Restoration Project | Chattooga Land Trust

Winter 2000

Looking Back | The Chattooga River Watershed: Shaped by 100 Years of National Events | Who's On First: National Transportation Policy, Roadless Initiative, and Planning Regulations

Summer/Fall 1999

Plant Kingdoms' New Family Tree | Interview w/ Rep. Cynthia McKinney | Recovery at Raven Chute | Kingwood

Spring 1999

Bobcats: Ghosts of the Forests | Climate of the Chattooga Basin | Hemlock Woolly Adelgid | General Wade Hampton III | Nuclear Plants: Watching License Bids