Archive for September, 2009

Elk Watching in Cataloochee

 

Elk bulls are bugling, fighting, and finding every way they can to display dominance during the breeding season that is happening right now. Click here or on the photo to get a sneak peak of elk activity in Cataloochee.

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Discovering Smoky Mountain Magic

 

Eighty years after its completion, Horace Kephart’s previously unpublished novel, Smoky Mountain Magic, has been released by Great Smoky Mountains Association. Click here or on the photo to hear the journey of the novel with Libby Kephart Hargrave, the author’s great-granddaughter.

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Shhh! Mama Bear Sleeping

Being a Mama Bear is hard work. Deb Campbell took this great photo of Mama catching a quick snooze twenty feet in the air in Cades Cove.

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Managing plant, animal health critical to park’s future

A time traveler going back to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the early 1930s would hardly recognize the landscape we celebrate today.

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‘Parks as Classrooms’ educates students

The hills, valleys and streams of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park have served as a schoolhouse for decades.

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Youth get lessons on importance of preserving Smokies

CADES COVE – Stewardship of the emerald hills of East Tennessee has been passed down through the generations like a beloved grandfather’s pocket watch.

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Even after 75 years, mountain families miss their homes

GATLINBURG – They didn’t move far, these children of the mountains. The government took their families’ land to make the Great Smoky Mountains National Park 75 years ago. But their love for the place kept them close, even if their new homes had no mountain views.

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Cades Cove Apple Butter & Sorghum Making

The whole family will enjoy demonstrations held in Cades Cove of how food was made in the good old days in the Smokies.
Apple butter making will take place on October 17 (weather permitting). Sorghum making will take place on November 6, 7 & 8.

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Fall Color: September 22

 

It’s the first day of fall, and color is already beginning to show up! Get set for what could be exceptional leaf color this fall! Click here or on the photo to view the video.

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Ramsey Cascades

Enjoy these lovely photos of Ramsey Cascades and the trail by Perry Fuqua.

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