Blackburn Fork WMA
In 2007, the landowners donated a conservation easement on their approximately 400 acre property along the Blackburn Fork State Scenic River. In 2011 and 2014, the same landowners donated the property to TennGreen which was then conveyed to TWRA and became the Blackburn Fork Wildlife Management Area.
In 2007, the Brantons donated a conservation easement of 414 acres along Blackburn Fork Scenic River. Then, in 2011, they also decided to donate their home and the 162 acres on which it rests to TennGreen in the wake of the decision to move closer to family. In 2014, they donated the remainder of their land to TennGreen.
Blackburn Fork also contains several rare and endangered species in need of protection, and its riverbanks serve as greenway corridors for wildlife conservation. Some of those species are the Cerulean Warbler and the Louisiana Waterthrush. Blackburn Fork is also a part of the Cumberland River watershed, which has been identified by the National Geographic Society as the most diverse temperate freshwater ecosystem in the world, with the greatest number of at-risk fish and mussel species in the freshwater regions of the United States. It has also been identified as a watershed hotspot by the Nature Conservancy.