East Tennessee to have 20,000 acres designated new wilderness area
Posted by Charles Rash on Wed, Jun 08, 2011 @ 08:34 AM
Sens. Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker are re-introducing the Tennessee Wilderness Act of 2011 to officially designate nearly 20,000 acres in six areas of the Cherokee National Forest as wilderness.
The act creates one new wilderness area and expands the boundaries of five different existing wilderness areas with the forest.
The Tennessee Wilderness Act of 2011:
- Creates the 9,038 acre Upper Bald River Wilderness (Monroe County)
- Adds 348 acres to the Big Frog Wilderness (Polk County)
- Adds 966 acres to the Little Frog Wilderness (Polk County)
- Adds 2,922 acres to the Sampson Mountain Wilderness (Washington and Unicoi County)
- Adds 4,446 acres to the Big Laurel Branch Wilderness (Carter and Johnson County)
- Adds 1,836 acres to the Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness (Monroe County)
http://www.nooga.com/6327_tennessee-wilderness-act-reintroduced-in-congress/