Mountain roads with rocky bluffs on one side and steep drops on the other may be pretty places to drive, but a series of slides in the last three weeks are rocky reminders of the dangers.
When Vanessa Bateman got a call Tuesday to come to the Ocoee Gorge to check the stability of a bluff over U.S. Highway 64, she didn't know she would become a hero.
Saying Chattanooga has a wonderful opportunity with Moccasin Bend as well as the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, former U.S. Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne told park “friends” to dream big.
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park Superintendent Shawn Benge is looking forward to Monday night’s final speaker in the 2009 Moccasin Bend Lecture Series.
A rock-mining dispute that became the first legal challenge to whether mineral rights include the right to mine mountain stone is scheduled to go to trial next week in Sequatchie County.
Cumberland Plateau groups are looking to expand efforts to preserve and connect large tracts of plateau land -- a minimum of 1.7 million acres and perhaps about 2 million acres.
Will Rogers, president and CEO of the Trust for Public Land, praised Chattanooga's urban park leadership Thursday and told local Rotarians that Stringer's Ridge has potential to be the city's "gem park."