Kyles Ford, Tennessee

Kyles Ford, Tennessee

Kyles Ford is an unincorporated community in Hancock County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is located at the base of Clinch Mountain along the Upper Clinch River and houses the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency's Kyles Ford Wildlife Management Area. A portion of Kyles Ford is included an convert|850|acre|km2|sing=on parcel of land referred to as the Kyles Ford Preserve. The parcel was acquired by TWRA in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and other conservation groups in a combined effort to preserve the area's rare, threatened, and endangered species of freshwater mussels. The concerned area of the Upper Tennessee River watershed that includes the Powell River Tributary, contains the most biologically diverse concentration of freshwater mussels in the Continental United States. It is also among the most degraded and threatened concentrations of mussels, containing some species that are globally unique.

Clinch-Powell Resource Conservation and Development has been instrumental in working with the Kyles Ford Community in developing portions of the preserve with educational and low-impact ecotourism facilities such as The Clinch River Conservation Retreat and River Place on the Clinch as a means of raising awareness and supplementing the funding of ongoing Appalachian cultural and biodiversity research and preservation efforts related to the area.

Bibliography

*cite web |url=Gnis3|1290427 |title=Kyles Ford |work=Geographic Names Information System |publisher=United States Geological Survey |accessdate=2008-01-14
*cite web |url=http://www.nbc.gov/accomplishments/report.cfm?states=TN |title=Noteworthy DOI Accomplishments in Tennessee |work=National Business Center |publisher=Department of the Interior |date=2004-01-22 |accessdate=2008-01-14
*cite press release |url=http://www.ecoworld.com/home/articles2.cfm?tid=281 |title=The Nature Conservancy Protects Site on Clinch River |publisher=The Nature Conservancy "via" EcoWorld |year=2007 |accessdate=2008-01-14
*cite web |url=http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/tennessee/preserves/art10174.html |title=Clinch River |work=The Nature Conservancy |year=2007 |accessdate=2008-01-14

External links

*dmoz|Regional/North_America/United_States/Tennessee/Localities/K/Kyles_Ford/|Kyles Ford, Tennessee
* [http://www.clinchriverecotourism.com/about_kyles_ford_tn/ River Place on the Clinch - About Kyles Ford, TN]
* [http://www.clinchpowell.net/riverplace.htm Clinch-Powell RC&D - River Place on the Clinch]
*Coord|36|34|15|N|83|02|36|W|type:city|region:US-TN|display=inline,title


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