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English: For more than a hundred years, the fertile and forested patch between the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers was referred to as the “land between the rivers.” In the 1960s, it became the “land between the lakes.”

In an attempt to control flooding and to generate electricity in rural Kentucky and Tennessee, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) built Kentucky Dam, thereby impounding the Tennessee River and creating Kentucky Lake in 1944. It became the largest manmade lake east of the Mississippi River.

Two decades later, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers blocked the flow of the nearby Cumberland River as well. With the completion of Barkley Dam in 1966, the waters of the Cumberland piled up into Lake Barkley. In the process of creating the two lakes, residents of several small towns along and between the rivers were moved, and parts of some towns were permanently flooded. A few local roads and railways had to be re-routed.

Engineers also dug out Barkley Canal in order to bring the two rivers and lakes to the same water level. This allowed ships and barges to more easily move goods (without locks) from the Cumberland and Tennessee river valleys toward the mighty Mississippi River. By the time they were done, the TVA and Army Corps had created one of the largest inland peninsulas in the United States.

In the years after the lakes were created, the new peninsula was slowly converted into a recreation area for hunting, fishing, boating, hiking, and camping. Now managed by the U.S. Forest Service, the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area includes one of the largest freshwater recreation complexes in the United States. The parkland and lakes attract roughly two million visitors per year. The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 acquired this natural-color image of the region on October 7, 2016.

Near Golden Pond, some forests have been cleared and re-seeded to return the land to what it likely looked in the 19th century. That grassland prairie also has been settled with elk and bison that once roamed the region. Recreational facilities also include a planetarium and a woodlands nature station. At the southern end of Land Between the Lakes, near the town of Dover, a re-creation of an 1850s homestead includes rare breeds of livestock and plants from that era.
Deutsch: Über mehr als ein Jahrhundert wurde der fruchtbare und bewaldete Streifen zwischen Tennessee River und Cumberland River als “land between the rivers” (Land zwischen den Flüssen) bekannt. In den 1960er Jahren wurde daraus das “land between the lakes” (Land zwischen den Seen)

Um Hochwässer zu kontrollieren und im ländlichen Kentucky und Tennessee Strom zu erzeugen, errichtete die Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) den Kentucky Dam, mit dem ab 1944 der Tennessee River zum Kentucky Lake gestaut wurde. Dieser wurde der größte künstliche See östlich des Mississippi River.

Zwei Jahrzehnte später blockierte das U.S. Army Corps of Engineers auch den Flusslauf des nahegelegenen Cumberland River. Mit der Fertigstellung des Barkley Dam im Jahr 1966 staute sich das Wasser zum Lake Barkley. Um diese beiden Stauseen zu schaffen, mußten ie Bewohner mehrerer kleiner Städte entlang und zwischen den Flüssen umgesiedelt werden, und Teile einiger Städte wurden für immer überflutet. Auch einige Straßen und Bahnstrecken mußten verlegt werden.

Die Ingenieure gruben auch den Barkley Canal, um beide Flüsse bzw. Stauseen auf den gleichen Wasserspiegel zu bringen. Dieser Kanal ermöglichte es Schiffen und Frachtkähnen, ohne Schleusen aus den Tälern von Cumberland und Tennessee River zum Mississippi River zu verkehren. Als das Projekt fertiggestellt war, war duch TVA und Army Corps eine der größten Halbinseln im Binnenland der Vereinigten Staaten geschaffen worden.

In den Jahren, nachdem beide Stauseen entstanden wurde die neue Halbinsel Stück für Stück in eine Naherholungsgebiet umgewandelt, das der Jagd, dem Angeln, dem Bootfahren, dem Wandern und dem Camping dient. Die Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area wird nun vom U.S. Forest Service verwaltet und schließt eines der größten Süßwassererholungseinrichtungen in den Verengten Staaten ein. Die Grünflächen und Seen sind jährlich das Ziel von rund zwei Millionen Besuchern. Der Operational Land Imager (OLI) auf dem Satelliten Landsat 8 nahm dieses Bild der Region in natürlichen Farben am 7. Oktober 2016 auf.

In der Nähe von Golden Pond wurden einige Wälder abgeholzt und neu eingesät, um das Land in den Zustand zurückzuversetzen, in dem es im 19. Jahrhundert wahrscheinlich war. Diese Graslandprärie war auch mit Elchen und Bisons besiedelt, die einst in der Region grasten. Zu den Einrichtungen des Erholungsgebietes gehört außerdem Recreational ein Planetarium. Am südlichen Ende des Land Between the Lakes, unweit von Dover, wurde eine Farm aus den 1850er Jahren wieder aufgebaut; dazu gehört eine Zucht von Vieh und Nutzpflanzen aus jener Zeit.
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Source https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=91391
Author NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Mike Carlowicz.
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