This year, the Federation celebrated 17 individuals and companies from across the state who are conserving our wildlife and wild places.
2023 Conservation Achievement Award Winners
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Outdoor Pursuits
Turkey Hunting: To Decoy or Not to Decoy?
A simple question that all turkey hunters ask themselves. Depending on the outcome of the hunt, we hunters may mull over the “shoulda, coulda, woulda’s” with turkey decoys for days after the hunt.
A Conservation Success Story: Sandhill Cranes
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...
The Right to Hunt and Fish: An Amendment to the Tennessee Constitution
All the way back to Ancient Rome, democratic societies have recognized the individual right to hunt and fish. But during the Norman Conquest in England, a landowner could be put to death for hunting...
Elk Restoration in Tennessee, 2003
Tennessee Wildlife Federation teamed up with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency to release the first elk in December of 2000. All of the 31 elk released in February 2003 are alive and well!...
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