Do you enjoy appreciating nature from the comfort of your home while awaiting spring? If so, The Nature Conservancy invites you to explore their Tennessee Webinar series. Developed during the COVID years and refined through last spring, this series showcases the recent evolution of The Nature Conservancy’s conservation efforts in Tennessee. Take a virtual tour […]
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Day Fire Podcast is back with part 6 of their 6-part series with Bike Tennessee, again talking with Shannon Burke and Tom Lamb. Shannon Burke has been working with Tennessee Tourism since 2022 to curate bike routes across the state through the Bike TN initiative, initially providing 52 road cycling routes for publication on BikeTN.com and currently
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Each year Tennessee Tree Day engages thousands of volunteers in a fun, family-friendly event planting native tree seedlings all across Tennessee. Tennessee Environmental Council works with TN Department of Forestry and other nurseries to supply bare-root native tree seedlings to citizens across the state through a network of volunteer partners and local businesses. Since 2007,
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The National Weed Wrangle is a one-day, area-wide volunteer effort that rescues our green spaces from non-native invasive species! On March 1st, Reflection Riding is hosting a Chattanooga-based clean-up by their campus to wrangle weeds in partnership with Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park. You’ll expand your skills in land conservation and help promote native plant growth, which
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Sewanee’s professor of biology Dr. Jon Evans has discovered a new plant species in Shakerag Hollow and has named it after the college it was founded in: Phacelia sewaneesis. The process for discovering this new flower led Evans through a journey of investigation and genetic research to rediscover a flower buried in time. Read more. Annelise
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TVA Dam Safety team and university researchers dig into history to uncover the Tennessee Valley region’s worst floods. Working with partners from the U.S. Geological Survey, University of Alabama and University of Memphis, TVA engineers peered far back into history – thousands of years – to analyze evidence from paleofloods. What they found in caves
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Tennessee’s South Cumberland Tourism Partnership has recently launched a new version of their Mountains of Adventure website. The site focuses essentially on Grundy County and the Monteagle and Sewanee areas of Marion and Franklin Counties. In addition to spectacular photography, the site features in-depth guides to: Begin your South Cumberland Mountains of Adventure experience here.
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The 21st Annual Trails & Trilliums, set for April 4–6, 2025, is a weekend-long naturalist rally, put on by the Friends of South Cumberland State Parks. Headquartered at the Beersheba Springs Assembly in Beersheba Springs, Tennessee, the festival offers a slate of guided hikes and walks as well as nature-themed presentations, workshops, and exhibits. A native plant
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Tennessee Wildlife Federation, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), has reached a settlement with the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) to better conserve the Duck River amid the region’s rapid growth. The agreement strengthens water withdrawal permits for two local utilities, limiting water loss and requiring them to follow an
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Dade County has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the National Park Service’s Land and Water Conservation Fund to support the creation of the Dade County Community Forest, a transformative 660-acre project aimed at enhancing outdoor recreation, environmental conservation and economic growth in the region. The project, led by Trust for Public Land in partnership
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