Nashville’s Highland Rim Forest
To help carry forward The Chestnut Group’s environmental legacy, we’re proud to share a feature from the Nashville Scene this spring. In the article, our own Judson Newbern sheds light on what’s now being recognized as Nashville’s Highland Rim Forest—a unique portion of the larger Western Highland Rim Forest that extends into the city’s limits and connects four of its major parks.
Thanks to Judson’s thoughtful insight and ongoing advocacy, this important natural feature now has its own Wikipedia page—a well-deserved recognition of a vital part of Nashville’s landscape.
Please see the article below:
If thousands of trees grow together, covering hillsides and hollows, at what point do they become a forest?
A small group of well-connected Nashvillians has spent the past few years learning exactly how difficult it is to answer that question. Most recently, lead volunteer Judson Newbern is after a Wikipedia page.
“The wooded hills around the western border of Nashville actually constitute a continuous forest that extends into surrounding counties,” Newbern tells the Scene. “This turns out to be a part of the ‘Western Highland Rim Forest.’ We want to give that portion that falls within Davidson County a name and to make sure it is recognized. Forests with a name on [them] get more respect than undifferentiated woodlands.”
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