Tennessee Highway Patrol Urges Motorists to Watch Out for Deer
October 7, 2016
Nashville, TN – The Tennessee Highway Patrol cautions motorists to watch out for deer on or near the roadways this fall season. An increase in deer-related crashes is likely during the months of October through December due to deer mating and hunting season.
“A crash with a deer can be a very serious and dangerous incident,” THP Colonel Tracy Trott said. “Deer pose a danger to motorists throughout the year, especially in the fall. Our stats show November is typically the worst month for deer-related crashes. It is important motorist exercise caution, slow down and remain alert in areas where deer are populated.”
October Through December Worst Time for Deer-Related Crashes
TWRA Becomes Nation’s First Wildlife Agency to Start Online Streaming Platform
December 16, 2015
Nashville, TN – The Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency has launched TWRA.tv, an online streaming platform to broadcast agency and local independent outdoor video content, including the award-winning series, “Tennessee Uncharted.” The project is collaboration between the TWRA Extreme Outdoors TV and Horton Group, Inc.
The TWRA has become the first wildlife agency in the nation to start its own online streaming platform. Similar to Netflix or YouTube, TWRA.tv will allow the agency to stream agency-produced, new and historical programming to users across the state and world.
Tennessee Uncharted
Great Outdoors University subject for TWRA’s First 2015 Nature @ Noontime program
December 30, 2014
Nashville, TN – Great Outdoors University will be the subject for the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency’s first 2015 Nature @ Noontime program. The program will be held Thursday, January 8th from noon-1:00pm at the TWRA’s Region II Ray Bell Building.
Sonya Wood Mahler, a member of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Federation, will be the program presenter. Great World University was founded in 2005 and is designed to introduce children to the natural world. [Read more]
Chattanooga Girl Wins Best of Show for 2011 Tennessee Federal Junior Duck Stamp Contest
May 16, 2011
Nashville, TN – Joanna Rush, of Chattanooga is the Best of Show winner in the 2011 Tennessee Federal Junior Duck Stamp art contest. She was recognized as this year’s winner at an awards’ ceremony held at Bass Pro Shops.
Joanna, who recently turned 15, is a sophomore home school student. She titled her winning artwork “Let’s Get Together,” depicting a male and female cinnamon teal in acrylic, colored pencil, and water color.
Joanna Rush, of Chattanooga, is pictured with her awards. Also pictured (from left), Don King, Chief of the Information and Education Division of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, Jarron Ritchie, Bass Pro Shops Operations Manager, Joan Stevens, of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Tennessee Refuge, Karen Anna Barton, Joanna’s art teacher, Mike Butler, CEO of the Tennessee Wildlife Federation, and Barron Crawford, of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Tennessee Refuge. (TWRA)
TDOT and TWRA Partner to Launch Park and Float Program
October 25, 2010
Program to Provide Improved Access to Tennessee Rivers and Streams
Nashville, TN – The Tennessee Department of Transportation and the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency are excited to announce the launch of a new program designed to improve access to Tennessee’s waterways. The Park and Float Program will increase recreational opportunities across the state by providing parking areas and access points at rivers and streams along the state’s roadways.
Under the Park and Float initiative, TDOT and TWRA established a list of candidate streams and rivers for the program. Some of the locations have been created at existing bridges, while others will be created when a TDOT bridge project is initiated on a stream or river on the Park and Float candidate waters list. Many of the newly created access areas will require minimal construction because bridge projects often have haul roads that will simply be left in place. [Read more]
