Latter-Day Paradises in the Cherokee National Forest

• Published in: Southern cultures Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 134 - 149
• Main Authors: Hathaway, John Lusk, Long, Mark
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 22-06-2021; The University of North Carolina Press
• Subjects: African Americans; Climate change; Displaced persons; Environmental issue; Environmental protection; Foot; Human beings; Human-environment interactions; Hypotheses; Influence on nature; Landscape ecology; Medical personnel; Medicine; Methods; Patients; PHOTO ESSAY; Recovery (Medical); Surgery; Valleys; Wilson, Edward O; Tennessee; New York; United States > US
• ISSN: 1068-8218; 1534-1488; 1534-1488
• DOI: 10.1353/scu.2021.0032

[...]even unspectacular natural environments can work the magic of medicine for healthy individuals, as well as those in convalescence, leading, for surgery patients, to lower numbers of days of inpatient postoperative care, fewer negative evaluative comments in nurses' reports, and lower prescription rates for painkillers. There are images of dams in the forest, but tva infrastructure is obliquely pictured in this project, as in photographs of drowned trees and stumps made visible as water is drawn down for hydroelectricity generation and as periodic droughts lower the waterline across these valleys.9 Those droughts are of a piece with the flood events that again loom within the tva system under climate change. 2 John Lusk Hathaway, "One Foot in Eden," accessed April April 6, 2021, http:// www.johnluskhathaway.com/welcome/uncategorized/one-foot-in-eden/. 3 United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Visitor Use Report Cherokee NF, last modified February 2, 2021, https://apps.fs.usda.gov/ nvum/results /ReportCache/ 2017_A08004_Master_Report.pdf; Carolyn Finney, Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014). 10 Tennessee Valley Authority, Climate Change Adaptation and Resiliency Plan 2020 Update, July 15, 2020, https://tva-azr-eastus-cdn-ep-tvawcm-prd.azureedge. net/cdn-tvawcma/docs/default-source/about-tva/guidelines-reports/climate-change-adaptation-plan.pdf?sfvrsn=ea88357i_2.