Cherokee National Forest
The Cherokee encompasses 640,000 acres and stretches from Chattanooga to Bristol along the North Carolina border. It is the largest tract of public land in Tennessee, and is at the center of the Southern Appalachian National Forests.
The Cherokee includes remote areas as wild and remote as any, and some of the most isolated and unfragmented Fores Servic lands in the eastern US. It is a companion to the Great Smoky National Park, and is home to more than 2,000 plants and animals.
Report
For more information contact Cherokee Forest Voices or the Cherokee National Forest.
This map illustrates SAFC vision for protection vs. the current level of protection, as well as the size of state and federal land vs. the size of urban areas.
Enlarged Legend
| currently protected USFS land | |
| SAFC conservation vision proposal - USFS land | |
| other USFS land | |
| other public lands | |
| USFS purchase boundaries | |
| Conservation easements | |
| Urban areas | |
| area within Southern Appalachian Region |