The University of Tennessee's Water Resources Research Center (WRRC)
 is facilitating the development of a regional "blueways" network of 
linked water trails in East Tennessee that will encourage canoers 
and kayakers to make use of local waterways and also promote other 
forms of recreation, natural resource stewardship, and ecotourism. 
The project, coordinated by WRRC Graduate Research Assistants 
Laura Wilks and Jeff Duncan, began as a pilot program along the 
Holston and lower French Broad rivers and proposes to 
link to other waterways and greenways in East Tennessee.