The Tennessee Wilderness Act was signed into law on December 20, 2018. The act designated the 9,000-acre Upper Bald River Wilderness Area – the first new wilderness area in Tennessee in 30 years. It also expanded the existing existing Joyce Kilmer-Slicrock, Big Frog, Little Frog Mountain, Big Laurel Branch, and Sampson Mountain wilderness areas in the Cherokee National Forest. 20,000 acres, 4.5 miles of the Appalachian Trail, world-class fishing and whitewater runs are now protected as Wilderness. This landscape is home to the eastern hellbender, North America’s largest salamander.
Success Story 2018
Tennessee Wilderness
- PROJECT NAME:
- Tennessee Wilderness
- GRANTEE:
- Wild South
- RESULT:
- 20,000 acres protected
