The state of Tennessee just acquired 7,400 acres of bottomland hardwood forest along the Hatchie River.
Bottomland hardwood forests are also known as “river swamps,” a type of wetland that plays a critical role in storing floodwater, improving water quality and housing biodiversity.
“The bottomland forests are so important to support some really unique habitats and species, some of them endangered and threatened,” said Laurel Creech, the Tennessee director of The Nature Conservancy, which helped support the acquisition…