"The Peanut Farmer and the Pork Barrel"

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This paper discusses "Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water," written by Marc Reisner. It specifically focuses on chapter nine, entitled "The Peanut Farmer and the Pork Barrel." The paper discusses the content of chapter nine and then examines the historical importance of the book and of this chapter in particular.

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"An interesting point mentioned in chapter nine is that the start of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 was able to stop Tellico in 1973 because of a rare fish that zoologist David Etnier saw while snorkeling in the Little Tennessee - where the Tellico Dam was to be built. Because its habitat was confined to one place, the rare fish, called a "snail darter" (because it darted after snails), made its way onto the endangered species list and thus came into consideration the "protection of habitat" under the NEPA law."

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