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

    Great Smoky Mountains

    National Park NC,TN

Dispatches from the Field: Discovering & Monitoring Life

A Jewelweed flower.

Botanists, part of the I & M team, identify flowers such as this jewelweed in wetland plots.

NPS photo.

Resource Roundup: Highlights of scientific projects and findings for January-March, 2010

Meet the Managers: Inventory & Monitoring

Focus On… biodiversity in the Smokies

  • NPS Profile: What's in our wetlands?
  • Partner Profile: Discovering Life in America (and water mites in Smokies streams)
  • Links to… information about biodiversity and becoming part of the search for life
  • And for those in school… information about education & experience needed to be part of Inventory & Monitoring

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Did You Know?

Great Horned Owls can be heard most often in January and February

More than 240 species of birds have been found in the park. Sixty species are year-round residents. Nearly 120 species breed in the park, including 52 species from the neo-tropics. Many other species use the park as an important stopover and foraging area during their semiannual migration.