Budget
$125,000.00
Description
Students are introduced to many outdoor activities including boating, hunting, trapping, archery, photography, marksmanship, plant identification, forestry, camping, water quality, trap & skeet shooting, wildlife identification, and several classes with wildlife and fisheries biology as the topic. They will participate in hands-on classes that will teach the importance of natural resources and management. Instructors are wildlife and fisheries biologists, wildlife officers, college professors, professional shooting coaches, and experts from fields of interest. Classes are 2-4 hours long. Once the students are accepted in the program, they will be able to attend at least 10 classes of their choice during the week. Many of these classes will provide certification for the students on the particular skills that are learned. Students that are interested in a career in the natural resources field will also enjoy the experiences that normally are not learned until you join the work force.
Program Areas Served
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Budget
$6,000,000.00
Description
The Tennessee Stream Mitigation Program (TSMP), Tennessee's in-lieu-fee program, was established under the TWRF in 2002. The TSMP was developed to serve as one alternative for providing compensatory mitigation to offset unavoidable stream impacts permitted through ?404/401 of the Clean Water Act. The TSMP is committed to providing meaningful mitigation by improving in-stream and riparian habitat and overall water quality. The TSMP uses the principles of natural channel design and process-based methodologies, to identify and develop stream restoration projects statewide. The program uses a watershed approach to complete large-scale restoration projects. Working with private landowners, non-profit organizations, municipalities as well as state and federal agencies, the TSMP funds projects on significantly degraded streams to arrest bank erosion, improve water quality and restore aquatic and riparian habitat.
Program Areas Served
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Budget
$2,250,000.00
Description
In 2007, the TWRF purchased 685-acres of prior-converted property along Big Muddy Creek in Haywood County, TN. The site had been cleared, ditched, leveed and converted to agriculture in the late 1960s. Working with state and federal resource agencies, the TWRF developed a plan to restore the site and establish a wetland mitigation bank. The TWRF restored the site in 2008-2009 by removing the levees, filling the ditches and planting thousands of native bottomland hardwood trees. Today the site is on the road to recovery. Once again functioning as natural wetland, the site now provides a myriad of water-quality benefits and valuable wildlife habitat. The ecological success of the project will be documented through a seven-year monitoring period. Once the bank is closed, the TWRF will transfer ownership of the property to TWRA. Through TWRF's efforts, future generations of Tennessee's sportsmen will be able to enjoy this unique resource the wildlife habitat provides.
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Budget
$1,500,000.00
Description
The Montgomery County Shooting Complex is Tennessee's premier shooting facility for archery, clay targets, pistol and rifle shooting. The complex is located just south of Clarksville, TN. The range is owned by TWRF and operated through a joint agreement with TWRA and the Montgomery County Sportsmen Association. The complex offers a great variety of shooting opportunities. There is a sporting clays course, an international bunker trap for Olympic style shooting. There is also an international skeet course, as well as 13 Combination American skeet and trap fields. For rifle shooters there is a 100-yard and 400-yard range. Pistol shooters have a 28-station range with moveable target stands. The complex hosts the TN Scholastic Clay Target Program state competition where hundreds of high school shooters came from all over the state to shoot it out for the chance to advance to the national SCTP competition.
Program Areas Served
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Description
The Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP) announces that the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Foundation (TWRF) has been named State Advisor for its state, filling the role of managing the Scholastic Action Shooting Program there.State advisors play a critical role in SASP shooting activities within their respective states, promoting the principles of the SASP and acting in the program's best interests. They are also the program's "resource central" for their states. Advisors respond to inquiries about SASP, assist in program activities, encourage participation and the formation of new teams, and provide important program information to team coaches, shooting facilities, and other organizations hosting SASP teams.
Program Areas Served
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