Wolf River (Tennessee)

Catchment area of ​​the Wolf River

The Wolf River springs from a swamp in the Holly Springs National Forest

Wolf River at German Town after two days with strong rainfall

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The Wolf River is a river in western Tennessee and northern Mississippi. The river flows into the Mississippi River, at the confluence of the two seas was the city of Memphis.

The river rises in the Holly Springs National Forest in Benton County ( Mississippi) and flows about 145 km in a north-westerly direction until it flows in Iceland Mud at Memphis into the Mississippi.

Major cities along the river next to Memphis Collierville and German Town in Tennessee.

In the middle stream of the Wolf shows no signs of human intervention, but its tributaries are almost all remodeled like a channel. The wolf itself but still has many meanders. There are also trees and riparian forests in most spots along the shore. In parts of the route he is known as Ghost River. There, a layer of sediment accumulates the water several kilometers long, a cypress forest is under water and hits very well received by conservationists. Share this area - from the state border Mississippi / Tennessee up to the Bateman Bridge - have been designated as protected Wildlife Management Area. The area covers 4,236 acres, of which 2,400 acres are in the flood plain of the Wolf.

Since cypress but can not be permanently in the water, it is foreseeable that the trees will die. In the last 15 miles to the Mississippi the Wolf River is channeled consistently.

The river was about 12,000 years ago, flowed as glacial glacier towards the west into the Mississippi. Before the arrival of Europeans in the Southeastern United States, the Mississippian culture spread in the area.