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Registration is open for University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture’s Sportsman’s Field Day. What does a Tennessee sportsman (or woman) need to know about chronic wasting disease or pond management? What about wild turkeys or silver carp? These topics and more will be covered at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture’s Sportsman’s Field Day on March 23, 2019. Hosted by ...

Three Ripley’s Aquariums are the home base for the all-new NBC show, Earth Odyssey with Dylan Dreyer. Earth Odyssey with Dylan Dreyer – hosted by the NBC News meteorologist and Today contributor ­– has premiered on NBC’s successful The More You Know block of popular Saturday morning programming. Originated each week from the home bases of Ripley’s Aquariums’ three locations in Gatlinburg, TN, ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park and its non-profit partner, Discover Life in America (DLIA), recently celebrated the 20th year of the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) with the announcement of a major milestone of the project – 1,000 new species to science! Over the last 20 years, many species have been documented in the park for the first time, but ...

Despite saying on Wednesday that a bear found near a man’s remains in Great Smoky Mountains National Park had been euthanized, officials said Friday that efforts to locate and euthanize the bear are ongoing. Areas of the park remain closed for public safety. 30-year-old William Lee Hill, Jr., of Louisville, Tenn., along with friend Joshua Morgan, entered the park Friday, ...

Great Smoky Mountain National Park officials say a bear was euthanized in connection with the search and recovery of remains of a missing man near Cades Cove. Searchers in Great Smoky Mountain National Park found the body of William Lee Hill, Jr., 30, of Louisville, Tenn. on Tuesday afternoon around 1 p.m., off Rich Mountain Road and approximately two miles ...

In honor of a fallen U.S. Marine, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency joined American Eagle Foundation for an American bald eagle release at the foundation’s Eagle Hack Tower on Douglas Lake in Jefferson County. While traveling through Waynesboro, Va., TWRA Fisheries Technician Gary Loucks visited Jake’s Bar and Grill and met restaurant owner Rhonda Winfield, who told him about her son Jason (nicknamed Jake), who lost his life while serving his country during the war ...

The 2018 Memorial Day holiday weekend is May 25-28 and the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency wants to emphasize the use of life jackets along with boating in a safe and responsible manner. The Memorial Day holiday weekend is regarded as the unofficial start to the summer boating season and is one of the year’s busiest boating weekends. Last year, there ...

Featuring more than 250 free sessions and activities spanning five days, Pigeon Forge’s award-winning Wilderness Wildlife Week runs May 8-12, 2018. The event is headquartered at the LeConte Center at Pigeon Forge. In its 28th year, Wilderness Wildlife Week offers a variety of workshops, lectures, seminars, concerts, hikes and other activities designed to introduce or reacquaint participants of all ages with the great ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park may have experienced an eclipse in 2017, but the support it received from one of its largest retail partners was anything but eclipsed, with more than $2 million contributed to a vast array of activities during the year by Great Smoky Mountains Association. In its recently released annual report of activity for 2017, GSMA listed ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is celebrating 20 years of conducting biodiversity inventories. Park managers, biologists, educators, and non-park scientists initiated an effort to discover all life in the Smokies through an All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) on Earth Day in 1998. The non-profit partner Discover Life in America (DLIA), created in 1998, coordinates the inventory. Over the last 20 ...