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TDEC is legally responsible for the protection of Tennessee's air, water, and soil quality. As of 2006, the department had at least fourteen divisions: the Division of Air Pollution Control, the Division of Archaeology, the Division of Geology, the Division of Ground Water Protection, the Division of Internal Audit, the Division of Natural Heritage, the Division of Radiological Health, the ...
Middle Tennessee: 900 acres, features the Merritt Nature Center Discovery Center at Murfree Spring: Murfreesboro: Rutherford: Middle Tennessee: 20 acres of wetlands, children's museum with themes of the arts, culture, science, health and the environment Fall Creek Falls State Park: Pikeville: Bledsoe: East Tennessee: Over 25,000 acres, Betty ...
The Discovery Center began as the "Discovery House", a children's museum, in 1986. [1] During its first year of operation it had 11,000 visitors. [2]In 1995 after it outgrew its old location the Discovery House staff, Congressman Bart Gordon and Murfreesboro Mayor Joe Jackson, with the help of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, began to study the possibility of reusing the vacated site ...
Tennessee River Folklife Museum: Eva: Benton: West: Culture: Located in Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park Tennessee River Freshwater Pearl Farm: Camden: Benton: West: Industry: Website, includes museum about freshwater pearls and the musseling industry, TN History for Kids article: Tennessee River Museum: Savannah: Hardin: West: Local history ...
Tennessee has 59 designated state parks, operated by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC). The largest park, Justin P. Wilson Cumberland Trail, is made up of land along the Cumberland Trail, stretching from Cumberland Gap at the Virginia state line to Prentice Cooper State Forest in Marion County, just northwest of Chattanooga. [1]
The Meeman Museum and Nature Center— named for conservationist and journalist Edward J. Meeman, the former editor of the Memphis Press-Scimitar, — is located on the park's grounds. The park covers 12,539 acres (50.74 km 2) and is the most visited state park in Tennessee. [1] The unincorporated community Shelby Forest is adjacent to the park.
"On January 20, the Trump White House will advise all U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from public water," Kennedy said in a post on X. "Fluoride is an industrial Tennessee lawmakers could ...
Central Texas: website, resort and nature park, located on 940 acres of Lower Colorado River Authority land, includes the Eagle Eye Observatory, nature programs Cattail Marsh: Beaumont: Jefferson: Texas Coastal Bend: 900 acres, located at Tyrrell Park, operated by the city. The area is a constructed wetland with diked cells of shallow water and ...