Eight grants totaling $1 million announced to support forests in Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama

October 13, 2017 at 1:00 a.m. | Updated October 13, 2017 at 2:38 a.m.

by The Knoxville News Sentinel

Local conservationists are worried erosion from a proposed logging project along Tumbling Creek, a trout stream in the mountains west of Copperhill, Tenn., could cause significant damage to environment. Members of Tennessee's chapter of the Sierra Club hope to get the U.S. Forestry Service to stop or scale back the project. Conservationists say trees along the stream include massive hemlocks, beech trees, mountain laurel and rhododendron, and lots of other hardwoods like oak, maple and hickory.
Local conservationists are worried erosion from a proposed logging project along Tumbling Creek, a trout stream in the mountains west of Copperhill, Tenn., could cause significant damage to environment. Members of Tennessee's chapter of the Sierra Club hope to get the U.S. Forestry Service to stop or scale back the project. Conservationists say trees along the stream include massive hemlocks, beech trees, mountain laurel and rhododendron, and lots of other hardwoods like oak, maple and hickory.

Eight grants totaling $1 million have been announced to support forestland restoration projects and working forests in Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama.

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and International Paper announced the grants that will be matched by $1.5 million from the organizations receiving the grants to make a total impact of $2.5 million, according to a joint release.

The projects include a $100,000 award to the University of Tennessee to help restore shortleaf pine and pine-hardwood forests on 682 acres on the Cumberland Plateau.

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