Mack S. Prichard
1939-2020

The environmental conscience of Tennessee has passed.
Mack S. Prichard, Jr., died peacefully on April 29, 2020 in Cookeville, Tennessee. 

He will be sorely missed by all who care about "all things nature", the great outdoors, Native American culture, and his tireless efforts to protect all these things, while building amazing coalitions to save, understand, interpret and protect these special places. Our thoughts are with his family, as we mourn the loss of a true Tennessee trailblazer and good friend.

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A FORCE FOR NATURE.

Welcome to MackPrichard.org, a home for some of the amazing collections of photos, videos and writings of Tennessee State Naturalist-emeritus Mack S. Prichard, a Memphis native who called the entire State of Tennessee his home (at least, the natural parts!).

Here, with Mack's blessing, the Friends of South Cumberland State Park, curators of this site, have scanned, archived and posted some of the thousands of slides, dozens of presentations and countless pages of Mack's writings and notes, recounting his more than six decades of service to the State of Tennessee, to Nature, and to like-minded environmentalists and conservationists across the planet.

Special thanks to the Tennessee Federation of Garden Clubs for its generous support of the Friends' work on the Mack Prichard Legacy Project.

A youthful Mack in action -- a self-portrait, taken with the timer on his camera. Said Mack, "I had to run like the devil to get into that shot, and at the moment the shutter clicked, I had no idea if I was even in the frame of the picture, or more importantly, whether I would complete that jump in one piece!" Happily, he made it -- and got a great photo, too!