I am thrilled that my farm, Coal Creek Farm, is participating in a vital preservation project administered by the Tennessee Parks and Greenways Foundation that has just received a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. The project is described as follows in the NFWF’s Cumberland Plateau Grantee Slate 2017 Factsheet:

Riparian Habitat and Shortleaf Pine Establishment at Whites and Coal Creek Headwaters

Grantee: Tennessee Parks and Greenways Foundation

NFWF Award Amount:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $115,000
Matching Funds:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $332,500
Total Project:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $447,500

Funding Partners: International Paper, USFWS

Tennessee Parks and Greenways Foundation and partners will enhance 1,600 acres of headwaters forest habitat on two privately owned tracts at Coal and Whites Creek in Cumberland County to protect and diversity wildlife habitat. The project will treat eastern hemlocks for hemlock woolly adelgid, create native grassland and shortleaf pine habitat through planting and prescribed burns, and construct cattle fencing. (Source: http://www.nfwf.org/cumberland/Documents/2017grantslate.pdf)

Read the press release on NFWF’s 8 project grants here: https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/09/25/1132185/0/en/National-Fish-and-Wildlife-Foundation-Announces-Over-1-Million-in-Funding-to-Restore-and-Improve-Cumberland-Plateau-Forestlands.html