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Swannanoa River

Swannanoa River

River in North CarolinaWikipedia

Search complete. 6 mentions across 4 episodes found for "Swannanoa River".

Sep 25, 2026

Jeff CorwinGUEST
3:07
... who was risen from the dead, and that's the story o- of the tangerine darter.
Jeff CorwinGUEST
3:13
The tangerine darter was a species that was extirpated from the Swananoa River, and it hadn't been there for 100 years.
Jeff CorwinGUEST
3:23
So we got to be there with the professor from Lees-McRae College, along with one of the leading s- uh, the leading fish biologists for the state of North Carolina, as we took it from one river, I think it was the French River-
Arroe CollinsHOST
3:36
Mm-hmm
Jeff CorwinGUEST
3:36
... and then we reintroduced it into the Swananoa River to...
Jeff CorwinGUEST
3:40
You can hear my Massachusetts-
Arroe CollinsHOST
3:42
[laughs]
Jeff CorwinGUEST
2:38
And that's the story of the tangerine daughter.
Jeff CorwinGUEST
2:41
The tangerine daughter was a species that was extirpated from the Swannanoa River.
Jeff CorwinGUEST
2:48
and it hadn't been there for a hundred years.
Jeff CorwinGUEST
2:51
So we got to be there with the professor from Lees-McCrae College, along with one of the leading fish biologists for the state of North Carolina, as we took it from one river, I think it was the French River, and then we reintroduced it into the Swannanoa River to, you can hear my Massachusetts speak in that river.
Jeff CorwinGUEST
3:12
And where we basically got to be a part of this amazing restoration process.
Jeff CorwinGUEST
3:18
And that really is the spirit of this series.
Aidan MattisHOST
7:32
The historic village of But Chimney Rock is just gone, as are many other small communities across the region.
Aidan MattisHOST
7:38
Portions of downtown Asheville were all but submerged under the overflowing Swannanoa River.
Aidan MattisHOST
7:43
Across the ridge in Irwin, Tennessee, 11 factory workers were swept away by the raging waters of the Nolichucky River, and at least four are confirmed dead.
Aidan MattisHOST
7:52
They are just a small fraction of the total number of lives lost to a storm which has now dumped between 10 and 30 inches of rain on essentially every county across the North Carolina-Tennessee border.
Matt PiekenHOST
2:45
Read more in the Citizen Times.
Matt PiekenHOST
2:49
Nearly two years after Helene, Asheville is planning a resilient rebuild of Azalea Road along the Swannanoa River.
Matt PiekenHOST
2:56
City Council was expected to consider recovery funding at their meeting Tuesday, including money for temporary gaseous creek bridge.
Matt PiekenHOST
3:03
Plans call for a permanent bridge with bike lanes while keeping the temporary crossing as an emergency route.

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