This week Postcards from the Smokies brings us a story of the fish weirs of yesterday and the mudology of today. A group of Cherokee youngsters from the Birdtown Day Camp recently had an opportunity to learn the “old way” of fishing weirs in a demonstration conducted by WATR (the Watershed Association of the Tuckasegee River) followed by a lesson on today's “mudology ”, the runoff of soil disturbed by developments, road building and bad streamside planting practices.
For centuries the Cherokee used the fish weirs to provide the village's main food supply. Although fishing with weirs is no longer practiced, many of the stone structures...read more
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