Del Rio, Tenn. — Standing atop a newly installed bridge over Wolf Creek, deep in Tennessee’s Cherokee National Forest, Brett Yaw and Sally Petre were both smiling proudly.
Although their professional backgrounds are completely different — Petre is a stream and rivers biologist; Yaw is a civil engineer — they both played key roles in a project that brought together a host of varied partners.
Yaw summed it up.
“You can’t separate watershed health from infrastructure,” said Yaw, a transportation engineer for the U.S. Forest Service.
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