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Four years ago, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency and Land Trust for Tennessee first noticed a 2,600-acre parcel of private land that could connect nearly 60,000 acres of already protected land.
Now that acreage, located in the midst of the Scott’s Gulf canyon area of the Cumberland Plateau, is safe as well.
Preserved through a land sale and now managed by TWRA, the land isn’t coveted simply for its connections, but for the endangered species that live within – such as the Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis), the gray bat (Myotis grisescens) and the bluemask darter fish (Etheostoma akatulo) – and its crucial usage as a wildlife corridor for the creatures who call the land home.
Tim Churchill, chief of the agency’s real estate division, called it a “high-priority preservation.”