• Approximately 1,500 black bears live in the national park.

    Great Smoky Mountains

    National Park NC,TN

Resource Roundup: Fall, 2009

Issue 5 > Resource Roundup                                                                               

 
Cascading creek in the Smokies.
Researchers explored new lands and finished sampling aquatic macroinvertebrates for the season this fall.
NPS photo.

Click on each Resource Management Program to learn about their current projects. 

Air Quality

  • States & parks working together
  • Changing ozone standards?

Cultural Resources & Archeology

  • Sensing graves underground

Fire

  • Cades Cove burning
  • Communicating the value of prescribed fire

Fisheries

  • Fish on the move
  • Toxic fish in southeast streams? 

Inventory & Monitoring

  • Ginseng seized & restored
  • Tapoco and Tallassee discoveries
  • Invertebrate inventories
  • Trees over the years
  • Forest plots
  • New fungi!
  • Ash, sycamore, & butternut mapping
  • Reorganizing Inventory & Monitoring

Vegetation

  • A new way to nab non-native invasive plants
  • Faster-acting help for healthier hemlocks
  • Seed harvesting
  • Are they here yet?
  • Exotics control
  • Pesticide persistence
  • Restoring Chilogate

Wildlife

  • Hungry or happy bears in the year to come?
  • Nuisance bears
  • Spray, don’t shoot
  • Hogs
  • In a rut

Partner projects

  • Winging it: monarch tagging

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Did You Know?

Mingus Mill is a turbine-driven grist mill.

Ninety seven historic structures, including grist mills, churches, schools, barns, and the homes of early settlers, preserve Southern Appalachian mountain heritage in the park.