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11155
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The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is celebrating its 75th anniversary. Boykin recounts how a combination of politicians, businessmen, tourism boosters, local residents, and nature lovers brought the part into existence.
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39511
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Serving as a tour guide for North Carolina’s three regions, the author advises for these areas the best places to visit, best times of the year to visit, and special considerations to take when visiting. Regarded must see areas included Pocosin Lakes and Mattamuskeet Wildlife Refuges; Swift Creek Bluffs and Johnston Mill Nature Preserves; Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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24036
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In order to protect the Great Smokey Mountains, scientists take to the conservancy each year to study the species there. This effort began in 1997 when the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory was launched. The focus of this program is to locate, study, describe, and catalog every living thing in the park.
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The Laurel of Asheville
(NoCar F 264 .A8 L28), Vol. 10 Issue 4, April 2013,
p90-91, il
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30360
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Travel to the most visited tourist attractions in North Carolina--the Blue Ridge Parkway and Great Smoky Mountains National Parkway--have exceeded 6,000,000 persons in 1953. This new record exceeded 1952 by over 700,000 visitors.
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14497
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After the war, no community in western North Carolina will fail to be touched and changed by the drawing power of the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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14598
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park was less developed in North Carolina when compared to successful improvements to the park in Tennessee during the 1940s. Part of the problem was a Cherokee Reservation unwilling to compromise with government demands to upgrade and draw in more tourist profits. In 1946 the matter was not fully resolved because of increasing government demands met with an unyielding local population.
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7652
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On the north shore of Fontana Lake lie 250,000 acres of Great Smoky Mountains National Park that are accessible only by boat. Few places in the park remain as remote, and the area is prized by fishermen, environmentalists, and others who appreciate its solitude. When the dam was completed in 1944, Swain County residents were promised a road to the homesteads made inaccessible by the dam. A seven-mile portion was built between 1948 and 1972, then construction stopped. A two-year environmental impact statement which will be finished in 2006 by the National Park Service will decide the fate of the area and the road. Igelman gives reasons for the region's popularity and the options available to the park to satisfy the 1943 agreement.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 70 Issue 2, Feb 2006,
p4-9, il, map
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30394
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Like many other national parks in the country, the Smoky Mountains National Park is suffering from inadequate appropriations for maintenance. Although the Smoky Mountains National Park attracts more visitors than almost any other park in the nation, it deals with the most issues of conservation and deterioration that is not being solved by funds from park admissions.
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35679
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Walking was recommended as part of backpacking and hiking experiences. For the best experiences, the author suggested considering supplies, rental prices, the pack’s weight, and ways to avoid littering. Sites such as Morrow Mountain State Park, the Blue Ridge Parkway, and Mount Mitchell were recommended. Included were tips for new backpackers and hikers.
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38254
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Benton MacKaye’s efforts to beautify the area blighted by excessive lumbering and erosion generated the creation of a trail that today covers 2,000 miles and runs through fourteen states. The alliance of volunteer hiking clubs and what became known as the Appalachian Trail Conservancy yielded the trail completed in 1937. Today, groups such as the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy help to upkeep the trails and surround region, along with minimizing activities like logging and development.
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Appalachian Trail--North Carolina ; Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.); Pisgah National Forest; Nantahala National Forest; MacKaye, Benton, 1879-1975; Appalachian Trail Conservancy; Appalachian Balds; U.S. Forest Service ; Appalachian Balds--Jane Bald; Appalachian Balds--Big Bald; Appalachian Balds--Round Bald; Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy; Hiking--Appalachian Trail; Hikers
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23638
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Reintroduced elk are adjusting to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The elk were absent for nearly 150 years after over-hunting, but the National Park has worked to steadily increase elk numbers.
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WNC Magazine
(NoCar F261 .W64), Vol. 1 Issue 5, November/December 2007,
p98-105, il
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8730
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The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the country's most popular park, is approaching fifty years of age. Corbett discusses the health of the park and what looms in its future.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 50 Issue 7, July 1986,
p18-23, il
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30467
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As more and more tourists travel to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park area, it has been argued that a small toll fee for use of the federally-constructed roads would help alleviate the Park of some its deterioration issues. However, there is a general opposition to imposing a fee on the public, believing it will discourage visitation.
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