UMCES releases the Tennessee River Basin Report Card

Cover of the Tennessee River Basin Report Card showing a forested waterfall and a grade of C.IAN and Appalachian Laboratory teamed up with the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative and the Tennessee River Basin Network to produce the first ever Tennessee River Basin Report Card. The Tennessee River Basin received an overall grade of C. The report card took a pressure, state, response approach to assessing the health of the region, finding the biggest threats to be aquatic and forest habitat fragmentation and land based sources of pollution. Read more about the report card process in Bill's blog here, and dig into the methods of the report card here.