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  1. Park recruits volunteers for monitoring program

    Park recruits volunteers for monitoring program Martin Luther King Day is the only federal holiday designated as a national day of service to encourage all Americans to volunteer to improve their communities. In honor of Dr. King's legacy, we share this upcoming opportunity to volunteer to observe visitor use patterns in the Smokies. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is recruiting Read more...

  2. North Carolina Field Station Enhances Park Research

    North Carolina Field Station Enhances Park Research By Frances Figart, Creative Services Director The house on Limby Birch Mountain at The Purchase provides bunkhouse-style lodging for up to 11 researchers. Photo courtesy of NPS. The southeastern corner of Great Smoky Mountains National Park lies in Haywood County on the southeastern side of the Cataloochee Divide. Read more...

  3. Image for the Asking: Reflections on the Past

    Image for the Asking: Reflections on the Past Story and image by Don McGowan William Ogle and his wife Martha Huskey were the first Euro-American settlers in the area of what would—by way of first being called White Oak Flats—one day become Gatlinburg, Tennessee. They arrived in the early 1800s (1803 by their own historical accounting), and in time their descendants spread Read more...

  4. Keeping Black Bears Wild and People Safe

    Keeping Black Bears Wild and People Safe The human-bear conflict will always be a concern in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This article recently published on National Parks Traveler—a nonprofit media organization dedicated to covering national parks and protected areas—is shared here to emphasize the importance of BearWise awareness. Black bear Read more...

  5. Permanent Camp: Evergreen Strategies

    Permanent Camp: Evergreen Strategies By George Ellison with illustration by Elizabeth Ellison Winter simplifies, scaling life down to the bare essentials. Solitude is surer then. The muted browns and grays of the soil and stones display a somber intensity. There are no curtains of leaves to obstruct vision. And winter outings provide an opportunity to observe evergreen plants more Read more...

  6. New Bee Discovered After Chimney Tops II Fires

    New Bee Discovered After Chimney Tops II Fires By Frances Figart New pollinators like the cellophane-cuckoo bee have moved into the Smokies after the Chimney Tops II fires. Photo courtesy of Will Kuhn Great Smoky Mountains National Park has a new bee. It’s a variety of cellophane-cuckoo bee called Epeolus inornatus discovered by researchers studying how the Read more...

  7. Image for the Asking: The Road Less Traveled

    Image for the Asking: The Road Less Traveled Story and image by Don McGowan Before the autumn escapes completely into winter and the light begins slowly to turn into spring, I want to speak about one of my favorite locations for fall color. In this place you will not find the perspective of a great vista; there are no waves of mountain ridges receding into the distance as far as one& Read more...

  8. Smoky Mountain Air Podcast: Meet author Morgan Simmons and Illustrator Don Wood, talents behind GSMA's newest children's book, Singing Creek

    Smoky Mountain Air Podcast: Meet author Morgan Simmons and Illustrator Don Wood, talents behind GSMA's newest children's book, Singing Creek On our latest episode of Smoky Mountain Air, we talk to Morgan Simmons and Don Wood, the author and illustrator of Singing Creek—a new book published by GSMA that takes young readers on an adventure of music and survival in the world of a Smoky Mountain stream. Morgan Simmons is a former outdoor editor for the Knoxville News Sentinel. Read more...

  9. Wildlife Biologist for Eastern Band of Cherokee Shares Indigenous Knowledge  

    Wildlife Biologist for Eastern Band of Cherokee Shares Indigenous Knowledge   by Frances Figart, Creative Services Director The supervisory fisheries and wildlife biologist for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is Caleb Hickman. But Hickman is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, one of two other federally recognized Cherokee tribes. “We share a common ancestry here in the mountains,” Hickman Read more...

  10. "Singing Creek" Is Live and Streaming! Creators Host Book Signing, Conversation, and Concert

    Something musical is coming straight from the Smokies into living rooms everywhere—and it has claws!  Great Smoky Mountains Association is pleased to announce a very special holiday-time book event with the creators of its newest title for younger readers, Singing Creek. Join author Morgan Simmons and illustrator Don Wood for this one- Read more...

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