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Plant life makes a comeback after 2016 wildfires
By Alix Pfennigwerth
A few days after the arson-caused 2016 Chimney Tops 2 wildfire spread across 11,000 acres of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Rob Klein, a National Park Service fire ecologist, hiked up the park’s Bull Head Trail.
National Park Service fire ecologist Rob Klein discusses the impacts of the 2016
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Trailside Talk: We Needn’t Love Our Trees to Death
Discussion of almost any major national park often includes the refrain that it is being “loved to death.”
This can obviously be applied to the Smokies, the nation’s most visited national park. Traffic jams can be found on park roads in almost every month of the year, and popular trailhead parking areas often are overwhelmed
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Image for the Asking: Between the Campbells
Story and image by Don McGowan
One of the great joys of living in the Southern Appalachians and in close proximity to the beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains is the opportunity for close observation as the starkness of winter with its leafless deciduous hardwoods, slowly at first and then in a full-out run, brings to these old hills another
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The Smokies in Your Backyard: Sourwood and Redbud
By Steve Kemp and Janet Rock
Since early spring is an acceptable time to plant trees, we continue this Smokies LIVE column with some trees native to the Great Smoky Mountains that should thrive around your home if you reside in the Southeast, central Appalachians, and parts of the Midwest. Remember to procure them from a reputable
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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
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Image for the Asking: The Ace of Sycamores
Story and image by Don McGowan
In reflecting on the teaching of the photographic process as it relates to the composition of images, I have understood that what is involved distills itself into two primary aspects: elements and principles; and that within these primary groupings there are a number of sub-groupings, all of which are rightly
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Permanent Camp: Fringe Tree
By George Ellison, with illustration by Elizabeth Ellison
“If the fringe tree has no economic importance, it contributes to the higher things of life: a raving beauty when in mid-spring it is loaded up from top to bottom with the airiest, most ethereal yet showy flowers boasted by any member of our northern phyla.”
~Donald
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