Tennessee Tomato History The tomato a fruit or vegetable? They're a fruit by definition. The Webster School & Office Dictionary defines a tomato as "The pulpy, edible fruit of a plant." It's defined by The American Heritage Dictionary in this manner: "A fleshy, smooth-skinned reddish fruit...
Tennessee is called the "Volunteer State," Tennessee became the 16th state of the Union in 1796. It was the first territory admitted as a state under the federal Constitution. Before statehood, it was known as the Territory South of the River Ohio. The name Tennessee is derived from the ...
The world’s 88 species of wrens are, for the most part, the quintessential “little brown birds,” but that hasn’t kept them from acquiring some interesting and descriptive common names. Some examples include the tooth-billed wren, flutist wren, riverside wren, whiskered wren, happy wren, ...
Imagine more than 100 species scattered over broad expanses of fresh water and lurking in hundreds of secluded coves. Crappie, bass, catfish, sauger, walleye, bluegill, stripes, and more ? they?re singing a siren song just for you. There?s something for everyone, from the expert angler ...
An updated species list for "Smoky Bears": Tardigrades of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA One of the largest inventories of tardigrades ever conducted occurred from 20002010 in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Over 16,000 specimens were catalogued, 85 species were iden...
Cedars of Lebanon State Parkis named for the eastern red cedar trees that populate the land, which reminded early American settlers of the cedar forests said to thrive on Mount Lebanon in the Bible. At 1,139 acres, the park isn’t humongous, but it’s well worth a visit, offering RV-...
The purpose of the study was to assess the vascular flora of the park and to develop (1) an annotated checklist of the vascular plants, (2) a list of introduced taxa and some notes on their apparent effect upon native species, (3) a list of rare, threatened, and endangered species, ...
long it lasts. Peak color in the Smokies’ lower elevations is still over a week away. Some reds have been seen in the valleys and golds appear in such species as the black walnut, birch, beech, and hickory trees. Maples and oaks are also beginning to show color in the lower ...
Mikota for only a few months, at the Audubon Center for Endangered Species (ACRES) in New Orleans. Although I expected to have many adventures on the journey, I never expected to be so influenced and to have my life enhanced so much from a working road trip. Dr. Mikota's expertise had...
In addition to killing fish, algae blooms can have disastrous effects on the economy. A2008 study of U.S. freshwaters found economic losses of $2.2 billion annuallyfrom recreational water usage, waterfront property values, recovery of threatened and endangered species, and drinking water treatment,...