Record amounts of snow have covered the Smoky Mountains for months.
NPS photo.
Click on each Resource Management Program to learn about current projects.
Air Quality
- Jarring January & frigid February - snow and record-setting weather in the Smokies
Cultural Resources
- Elkmont in ink
- Historic headquarters
- Summer field school: archeology
- Workshops for teachers
- New hires for summer
Fire
- Training and testing
- Plotting fire effects
- Helicopter training
- Learning about fire
- Burning at other parks
Fisheries
- Training volunteers for water quality
- NPS Water Resources Division Meeting
- Spreading the words about water and fish
- Ongoing project promises cleaner water
- Megatransect stretches across the Smokies
- Remotely sensing the missing link
- NIMBioS in Knoxville
Inventory & Monitoring
- Initiating inventories
- Checking in on spruce-fir
- Understanding soils
- Threats to high elevation health
- Law Enforcement learns GIS
- Viewshed analysis
- Picturing the park
- Botanical and bug bevy
- Looking past the list
- Algae in Abrams Creek
Vegetation
- Gusts topple greenhouse
- “Adopt-a-trap” program to help us spot invasive insects—volunteers needed!
- Ash tree mapping—Cherokee HS students start out the season
- Maryville College students help eradicate invasive plants
- Exotic spring break
- Long-horns on the loose
- Revegetation of Foothills Parkway
- Planting the seed for native plants
- An oily endeavor
- Hemlock treatment success
Wildlife
- Tracking bat health: white-nose syndrome updates
- White-nose working group
- Fact sheet on lead poisoning in wild birds
- Suspected elk poacher charged; awaits trial
Other news
- DLIA Science Cafe
- Gold rating for Twin Creeks Science Center
- Southeast climate change workshop
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