The Oak Ridge National Environmental Research Park (NERP) contains seven registered State Natural Areas and has been recognized as an International Biosphere Reserve by Unesco's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) program.
The size of the land resource has shrunken considerably in recent years, so that only about 20,000 acres of the original 58,575 acres of the ORR remain in a relatively undisturbed state.
Any further reduction in the size of the Reservation, even from the edges, could have serious consequences for the viability of many of these species that require large unfragmented tracts of forested land.
Brief description of the NERP and links to its website and to other notable resources about the research conducted in the NERP need to be added here.
The size of the land resource has shrunken considerably in recent years, so that only about 20,000 acres of the original 58,575 acres of the ORR remain in a relatively undisturbed state.
Any further reduction in the size of the Reservation, even from the edges, could have serious consequences for the viability of many of these species that require large unfragmented tracts of forested land.
Brief description of the NERP and links to its website and to other notable resources about the research conducted in the NERP need to be added here.