©George Gentry, USFWS
Annual Meeting
The meeting will be held on March 5-7, 2025 at the Camp Margaritaville RV Resort & Lodge in Pigeon Forge not to be confused with the Margaritaville Resort in Gatlinburg or the previous venue at Margarita Island Hotel.
Here is the address to the hotel: 149 Cates Ln. Pigeon Forge, TN 37861
Please be on the look out through email for any additional information. We look forward to seeing everyone.
Past Annual Meetings
2024 Paris Landing State Park; Theme, When Worlds Collide: Navigating Divergent Interest in Wildlife Management
2023 Montgomery Bell State Park
2022 Virtual
2021 Virtual
2020 Murfreesboro
2019 Edgewater Hotel and Conference Center, Gatlinburg
2018 Fall Creek Falls State Park
2017 Paris Landing State Park, Paris; Program
2016 Montgomery Bell State Park, Burns
2015 Edgewater Hotel and Conference Center, Gatlinburg
2014 Fall Creek Falls State Park, Spencer
2013 Paris Landing State Park, Paris; Theme: Wildlife Management and Conservation in Changing Times
2012 Henry Horton State Park, Chapel Hill
2011 Valley View Lodge, Townsend; Theme: Technology and New Challenges in Wildlife Management
2010 Pickwick State Park; Theme: An Alphabet Soup of Wildlife Management
2009 Fall Creek Falls State Park; Theme: Wildlife Management: Then and Now
2008 Henry Horton State Park; Theme: Meeting in the Middle
2007 Valley View Lodge, Townsend; Theme: A Mountain of Issues
2006 Paris Landing State Park; Theme: Wildlife Management in Tennessee and Kentucky: Success through Policy and Practice (Joint meeting with KY-TWS
2005 Fall Creek Falls State Park; Theme: Wildlife Management in Tennessee: A State of the State
2004 University of Tennessee – Martin; Theme: Using Partnerships for Success in Wildlife Management
2003 Tennessee Technological University; Theme: Forest Management and Wildlife
2002 Fall Creek Falls State Park; Theme: Prescribed Fire for Wildlife: A Burning Issue
2001 Paris Landing State Park; Theme: The Tennessee Bobwhite: Can We Recover?
2000 Fall Creek Falls State Park; Theme: Quality Deer Management: Panacea or Pandora’s Box?
1999 Montgomery Bell State Park; Theme: Restoring Our Wildlife Heritage
1998 Henry Horton State Park; Theme: Overabundant Wildlife Populations: When Did We Exceed Carrying Capacity?
1997 Lincoln Memorial University; Theme: Tennessee’s 3rd Century of Wildlife Management: Where Do We Go from Here?
1996 Paris Landing State Park; Theme: Wildlife Management on Private Lands: Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities
1995 Fall Creek Falls State Park; Theme: Integrating Traditional and Non-traditional Values in Wildlife Management
1994 Holiday Inn Resort Complex, Gatlinburg (w/TCL); Theme: Ecosystem Management
1993 Thunder Hollow Resort, Crossville (The Blizzard of ’93!); Theme: Wildlife Management in Tennessee: Directions for the Future
1992 University of Tennessee – Martin; Theme: Public Perceptions of Resource Management
1991 Lowes Vanderbilt Hotel, Nashville (w/TLC); Theme: Animal Rights, Animal Welfare, and Wildlife Management
1990 Sheraton Inn, Johnson City (w/TLC); Theme: Status and Trends of Tennessee Natural Resources
1989 Tech Aqua, Cookeville; Theme: Wildlife Enterprises
1988 Tech Aqua, Cookeville; Theme: Wildlife Damage Control
1987 Tech Aqua, Cookeville; Theme: Wetlands and Outdoor Recreation
1986 Brandon Springs, LBL; Theme: Computer Modeling as a Wildlife Management Tool
1985 Brandon Springs, LBL; Theme: Tennessee Threatened and Endangered Species
1984 Brandon Springs, LBL; Theme: Tennessee Wetlands Management
1983 Brandon Springs, LBL; Theme: Impacts of Farm Programs on Wildlife Management
1982 Brandon Springs, LBL; Theme: Integrating Wildlife Management into Timber Management Operations
1981 Brandon Springs, LBL
1980 Brandon Springs, LBL; Theme: Raccoon Research and Management in Tennessee
1979 Standing Stone State Park
1978 Tech Aqua, Cookeville; Theme: Raccoon Research / Misc. Topics