Worthington Cemetery Ecological Study Area
History of TCWP involvement Worthington Cemetery lies within a cedar-barrens area abutting the Clinch River (Melton Hill Reservoir) on the west side of the river bend near the old Elza Gate. The tract is on TVA land which, prior to 1992, had been designated (but not...
Whites Creek Small Wild Area
History of TCWP involvement In the summer of 1980, TCWP founders Bill and Lee Russell contacted TVA Chairman S. David Freeman to suggest that a tract in the Whites Creek embayment of Watts Bar Reservoir be designated a Small Wild Area. It took several TVA visits to...
Alley Ford Cumberland Trail
In 1998, Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning, in alliance with the Cumberland Trail Conference (CTC), adopted the Alley Ford segment of the Cumberland Trail. TCWP has sponsored annual trail maintenance events on this portion of the trail since then. The entire...
TCWP STEWARDSHIP AREAS
Oak Ridge Cedar Barren
Click on the below link to read the article about Oak Ridge Barrens: OAK RIDGE BARRENS NATURAL AREA: HISTORY, SIGNIFICANCE, AND MANAGEMENT Students at neighboring Jefferson Middle School created a place-based Story Map on the Cedar Barrens and the CRESO bird box...
History of Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning
Introducing TCWP – Past, Present, and Future | by Liane B. Russell
Here we are - half a century old and going strong. How did we get started? What have we accomplished? What are we doing now? One of two stimuli that led to the formation of Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning, TCWP, was a TVA proposal for a dam that would...
How the Obed got saved from being turned into a reservoir and became a National Wild & Scenic River
The dam proposal. The superb wild gorges of the Obed, Clear Creek and Daddys Creek that increasing numbers of people are now getting to know and love came very close to being condemned to disappear forever at the bottom of a deep reservoir. When TVA announced about 50...