A small, aphid-like insect that destroys hemlock trees is closing in on the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and sooner than park officials expected. A state plan to sell 765 acres of Columbia Dam land for commercial and residential development has infuriated some Maury County residents, find out why. From waste to wilderness Nuclear waste sites could be converted into ecologically sound wilderness areas and save billions of tax dollars in the process. An emergency response exercise simulating the release of hazardous materials is scheduled for Wednesday at the Y-12 National Security Complex. Smokies make air pollution list for 3rd straight year The Great Smoky Mountains have again made the National Parks Conservation Association's endangered parks list.
Clear cutting divides wood industry.
A local conservancy group faces off against the logging industry on proposed new legislation. Beetles Gobbling up Millions of Trees Visitors to Chester Frost Park may not recognize their summer playground after county workers cut nearly a 1,000 trees to fight the worst Southern pine beetle outbreak in a quarter-century. Listen to the word coming out of a University of Tennessee committee, and you might hear somebody saying that UT is behind the times in creating an environmentally-friendly campus. The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area has increased by 1,000 acres, thanks to the National Park Service's recent acquisition of three tracts of land in Fentress County. The Soil and Water Conservation Commission has advised the several cities to issue stop-work orders on projects due to erosion and sediment control violations.