On average, more than 28,000 vehicles travel on I-40 between Tennessee and North Carolina every day. This interstate cuts through incredible wildlife habitat in the Great Smoky Mountains. Wildlife are either restricted to one side of the highway or have to find a way to cross it to access essential resources such as food, water, mating sites, and cover.
Congress is expected to pass the CWD Research and Management Act to combat CWD, a contagious and fatal disease affecting deer and elk.
Recently, Sen. Lamar Alexander took to the floor of the United States Senate to discuss an important issue: a proposed wind farm that would be located in Cumberland County if approved. He was joined...
This story, reprinted courtesy of The Tennessee Conservationist magazine, first appeared in that publication in 2012. With the October 2015 confirmation of a cougar sighting in Obion County and, a...
Over the past ten years, economic development interests within the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development (ECD) have conceived and begun to implement a plan to create a...
Really? Elk are native to Tennessee? Elk are not only native to Tennessee but were hugely important to the way of life of early residents of the state, even helping to shape its landscape. “Many...
The Hatfield Knob Elk Viewing Tower at the Sundquist Unit of the North Cumberland Wildlife Management Area in Campbell County opened in 2005. Since then, thousands of wildlife enthusiasts have been...
Sections of this article are taken directly from the following sources, and from direct communications with Fisheries Chief Bobby Wilson of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency....
The monarch, known for its bold orange coloring, rules as king of the butterflies. However, that reign is in danger of coming to a tragic end. In 1996, the population of monarch butterflies in North...
Adapted from Dr. Marge Davis' "Sportsmen United: The History of the Tennessee Conservation League" The Tennessee Conservation League (now the Tennessee Wildlife Federation) was formed on...
Tennessee establishes a hunting season for sandhill cranes According to the biologists at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Eastern Population of sandhill cranes have grown to huntable...
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