Ropes course ribbon cutting: (left to right) Knox County Parks Director Doug Bataille, Knox County Commissioners Mike Brown and Ed ...

  There are those quintessential childhood nature moments that stay with us as we move into (and through) adulthood: catching firefl...

Kids and Ijams just seem to go together. Why? Because the nature center offers them a safe place to explore and learn a...

A night view of the spectacular lights at the National Conservation Exposition at Chilhowee Park in Knoxville in 1913. One hundred ...

Kathlina Alford, Thom Benson and Dr. Bernie Kuhajda with the Tennessee Aquarium (right, all in dark blue) help Gap Creek...

The Clayton Family Foundation is supporting Ijams with a grant of $10,000 toward the operations of this 300-acre urban green...

Pair of ivory-billed woodpeckers on display in Ijams Visitor Center. The Nature Center's namesake: H.P. Ijams was an illustrator...

To take a photograph literally means "to draw with light." And this time of the year, the light takes on a golden hue. Many ...

Last Saturday, Ijams went retro: back in time to celebrate the cars and music of decades past!  Classic and vintage cars (m...

As a follow up to a post from last week, our own Rex McDaniel made a video of the last stages of a monarch butterfly caterpillar sheddi...

Many special projects here at Ijams would simply never get done without volunteers. The Ijams staff can only do so much. ...

As a life-long naturalist, I'm still overwhelmed, shocked, amazed by the miracle of nature. Generally, on any given day, if you...