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Top 10 Places to Recreate Outside in Tennessee

The Volunteer State offers a wide variety of outdoor pursuits. From hunting to hiking, you’ll be sure to find an outdoor activity in this diverse state.

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.

Conservation Groups File to Defend Longstanding Clean Water Protections

Clearer, more consistent clean water protections for streams, fisheries, and wetlands that provide habitat and protect communities from storms are at stake.

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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Top 10 Places to Recreate Outside in Tennessee

Turkey Hunting: To Decoy or Not to Decoy?

Conservation Groups File to Defend Longstanding Clean Water Protections

Elk Restoration in Tennessee, 2003

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