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Jenni Frankenberg Veal is a freelance writer and naturalist living on Walden’s Ridge in Tennessee. Her writing interests include conservation, outdoor travel and sustainable living.

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Cumberland Caverns Takes Bluegrass Music to a New Level - Underground for Nooga.com: Water and time entwined to create one of the most acoustically pure natural spaces on earth, the Volcano Room at Cumberland Caverns in McMinnville, Tenn. This world-renowned venue is celebrated today as Bluegrass Underground, a monthly bluegrass concert series featuring some of the greatest musicians in the region in an intimate subterranean setting...

Interview with Joe Cook, Paddle Georgia Coordinator for Sierra magazine: "The great thing about Paddle Georgia is the community that is built over the course of the week, as 300 or more people paddle together through the state's beautiful waters. Some days we feel like we're in paradise, but then we inevitably run into something—discharge from a storm drain or a riparian buffer that's been destroyed by development—that stirs everybody up..."

Appalachian Bear Rescue: Saving Injured and Orphaned Black Bear Cubs in Tennessee for Nooga.com:
Since opening in 1996, Appalachian Bear Rescue has rehabilitated 186 orphaned and injured black bears from East Tennessee and Great Smoky Mountains National Park, as well as surrounding states...