Since 2014 Ijams Nature Center has offered the Tennessee Naturalist Program core course, and we are happy to announce that registration for the 2023 season of TNP will soon! Classes begin on February, 18th 2023 and meet every month through November. Ijams can’t wait to host another successful season of TNP!

REGISTRATION FOR THE 2023 COURSE OPENS MONDAY, JANUARY 9 AT 8PM
NOTE: Long Hunter State Park’s TNP chapter was formerly known as and located at Cedars of Lebanon State Park from 2015 through 2022.

The Paris Landing/TNWR Chapter, created through a partnership between Paris Landing State Park and the Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge, joined our program in January of 2020. Paris Landing State Park is an 841 acre park located on the western shore of the Tennessee River, which is dammed to form Kentucky Lake (160,000 acres). Adjacent to the Park, the Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge encompasses 51,000 acres stretched along 65 miles of the Tennessee River. Established in 1945, the refuge is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and was created as a conservation area for migratory birds especially wintering waterfowl.