We appreciate your interest and hope you'll have a meaningful and rewarding experience at Kyles Ford. Here are a few online resources to prepare for your visit to the Kyles Ford Preserve:
The Wilderness Road Online Classroom »
(for use with the Clinch-Powell RC&D's Wilderness Road CD-Rom)
Check out videos and sound files from the Wilderness Road CD-Rom in the Media Gallery »
Take an Online Awareness Course »
By staying at River Place on the Clinch, your vacation will help fund and expand habitat conservation efforts in this precious hotspot of biodiversity that is the Kyles Ford Preserve. You will also help us maintain and continue to improve this protected habitat and its species by remembering to Tread Lightly (impact awareness program courtesy of the USDA Forest Service).
Local Appalachian Culture Resources
Hancock Co. Historical & Genealogical Society
TSLA Bibliography: Hancock Co. History Sources
The International Storytelling Center
Ecotourism Resources
Ecotourism in Appalachia: Marketing the Mountains
TNC: Ecotourism Success Stories
Local Ecological Information
Draft 2008 303(d) Assessment List of Tennessee's Threatened and Impaired Waters
Freshwater Bivalve Ecotoxicology By Jerry L. Farris, John H. Van Hassel, SETAC (Society)
A Description of the Upper Clinch Watershed(pdf) | pdf reader
Grasping for Solutions by Joby Warrick, 2001
Clinch River toxic spill August 27, 1998
News Release: The Nature Conservancy Protects Top Target on Clinch River
More About Freshwater Mussels
4Kids: Fun With Freshwater Mussels
Rebuilding Musssel Populations
Freshwater Mullusk Conservation Society
Tennessee Freshwater Mussels Exhibit (Knoxville)
Habitat Restoration
Habitat Restoration: Appalachian Style
TVA: Shoreline Stabilization Plant Database
Clinch River Community Project
Water Quality Monitoring
The Stream Study - How to Identify & Collect Microinvertibrates
EPA: Biological Indicators of Watershed Health
Standard Procedures for Water Quality Analysis
Independent Higher Learning:
Free Online Courses
Geography at Foothills College (CA) »
Biology at the University of Massachussetts in Boston
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Open Courses at Carnegie Mellon »
Open Courses at Utah University »
