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13,467 acres, features the Meeman Museum and Nature Center Owl's Hill Nature Center: Brentwood: Williamson: Middle Tennessee: 160 acres, open to individuals and groups on a reservation basis Reelfoot Lake State Park: Tiptonville: Lake: West Tennessee: 280 acres broken into 10 segments, features the R.C. Donaldson Memorial Museum, a natural ...
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 ...
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 Tennessee water resource region is one of 21 major geographic areas, or regions, in the first level of classification used by the United States Geological Survey to divide and sub-divide the United States into successively smaller hydrologic units. These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major river, or the combined ...
(The Center Square) – Tennessee could be one of the next states to address fluoride levels in drinking water as some question its benefits versus possible risks. The debate over fluoridation ...
San Marcos Nature Center: San Marcos: Hays: Texas Hill Country: website, operated by the City in the 6-acre Crook Park, focus is the San Marcos River watershed ecosystem Sea Center Texas: Lake Jackson: Brazoria: Texas Coastal Bend: website, marine aquarium, fish hatchery and nature center operated by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
The 50-acre water park was ranked No. 8 on the 2024 10Best water parks list. It has water coasters, including The Edge, a dueling coaster that opened in 2023, water slides, an adventure river and ...
The TVA established the stairway of nine dams and locks that turned the Tennessee River into a 652-mile-long river highway. Dams and reservoirs on the main stem of the river include the following (listed from the furthest upstream to the furthest downstream): Fort Loudoun Dam impounds Fort Loudoun Lake; Watts Bar Dam impounds Watts Bar Lake