Posts Tagged ‘Tennessee’
Tennessee’s bat cave
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, TENN. — The world’s first artificial bat cave is expecting the arrival of its first winged visitors. The nearly 80-foot-long concrete chamber was built to protect bats against white nose syndrome, a disease named for a white fungus that infects [Read More]
In praise of grazing
In 1996, when Ralph and Kimberlie Cole bought 100 acres on the scenic Cumberland Plateau in eastern Tennessee, neither of them knew a thing about farming. At the time, they were drawing their paychecks in Oak Ridge, some 45 miles away, where Ralph oversaw a lab that studied [Read More]
A Tennessee Time Machine
For OnEarth magazine, I covered a climate change experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Read the whole story here. [Read More]
Turning Water into Whiskey at Jack Daniel’s
Some would argue that the water flowing from a fissure in a rock in Moore County, Tennessee, is made for whiskey. ”You can’t make good whiskey without good water,” says Jeff Arnett. He should know. Since 2008, Arnett has been the Master Distiller at the [Read More]
