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Great Smoky Mountains National ParkWild Turkeys are plentiful in the park.
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Junior Ranger: Blacksmithing
Join Ranger Brad and his blacksmith apprentices as they make dinner bells in the blacksmith shop at the Mountain Farm Museum. This video is closed captioned. To turn captions on or off, click on the caption button in the right-hand corner of the viewer control bar.
 
 

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Mountain Farm Museum
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Junior Ranger

Flame azalea can be found growing on heath balds in the park.  

Did You Know?
The park’s high elevation heath balds are treeless expanses where dense thickets of shrubs such as mountain laurel, rhododendron, and sand myrtle grow. Known as “laurel slicks” and “hells” by early settlers, heath balds were most likely created by forest fires long ago.

Last Updated: February 25, 2009 at 14:19 EST