Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge, Paris Landing State Park to hold Tennessee Naturalist Program
July 24, 2023
Springville, TN – Paris Landing State Park and Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge have announced that registration is now open for the next Tennessee Naturalist Program course. Classes will begin September 2nd meeting mostly once a month until June 2024.
This makes the widely recognized Naturalist Course available to area residents who wish to study nature during all four seasons. Paris Landing and Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge are one of eleven Chapters of the Tennessee Naturalist Program located throughout the state.
Jennifer Johnson-Pack and other students from a previous Tennessee Naturalist class uses a net to search for amphibians and reptiles on a wetland area of Paris Landing State Park.
Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge to hold World Migratory Bird Day event May 13th
April 27, 2023
Springville, TN – May 13th is World Migratory Bird Day, an annual global awareness-raising campaign to celebrate the amazing journeys of migratory birds, and to inspire worldwide conservation of these migratory birds and their habitats.
The Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge plans to celebrate that day by hosting a family friendly event featuring one of Tennessee’s most beloved and beautiful migratory birds: the Eastern Bluebird!
Join us on Saturday, May 13th from 1:00pm to 3:00pm at the refuge’s Visitor Center located at 1371 Wildlife Drive in Springville, TN. This event will feature a program about the eastern bluebird, its history in this area when their population numbers experience drastic decline and how bluebird boxes changed everything.
Sisters Courtney and Abby Colley build a bluebird box at the refuge bluebird program held in 2018.
Lamar Alexander says most important Conservation Law in half a century is now Law
August 9, 2020
Washington, D.C. – It is no exaggeration to say that something remarkable and historic happened this week. President Donald Trump signed into law the most important conservation legislation in a half century, the Great American Outdoors Act.
From the National Mall to the Great Smokies to the Grand Canyon to Pearl Harbor, too many of the 419 national park properties are in bad shape, and visitors often are shocked to find so many roads, picnic areas, trails, campgrounds and visitor centers in bad condition or even closed.
U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander
2020-2021 Hunting Regulations for Tennessee and Cross Creeks NWR Available
June 6, 2020
Nashville, TN – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announces hunt program information for Tennessee and Cross Creeks National Wildlife Refuge in West Tennessee.
The new hunt brochures for each refuge are now available online and at refuge offices, kiosks and area sporting goods stores.
Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge provides hunting opportunities on all three of its units for white-tailed deer, raccoon, wild turkey, squirrel and resident Canada goose. Cross Creeks provides hunts for all the above species except raccoon.
Tennessee and Cross Creeks National Wildlife Refuge 2020/2021 Hunt Program Season Dates and Regulations
Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge Teams up with Tennessee Valley Authority, Discover Life in America to Host Bioblitz
March 15, 2020
Springville, TN – On Saturday, May 16th, 2020 from 8:00am to noon, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announces they are teaming up with the Tennessee Valley Authority and Discover Life in America to host a BioBlitz at the Big Sandy Unit of the Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in north-central Tennessee. The refuge, considered a hotspot of biodiversity in this area, consists of 51,000 acres that stretch along 65 miles of the Tennessee River.
In an effort to conduct a concentrated survey of nature in a small area of the refuge, they are inviting the public to come participate in a family friendly, citizen science activity alongside many professional scientists.
BioBlitz at the Big Sandy Unit of the Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) to be held May 16th.
Latest Collectible Waterfowl Stamp Available Through TWRA
February 26, 2020
Nashville, TN – The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) announces that the Best of Show drawing from the 2019 Tennessee Annual Junior Duck Stamp Art Contest is now a collectible waterfowl stamp.
Orders are being taken for the collectible stamp that is produced annually and sold for conservation education through the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.
Erica Brock from Lafollette was honored as the 2019 Tennessee Best of Show last spring as announced by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which hosts the annual contest.
