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Greetings!
Welcome to the Tenth Edition of the Great Smoky
Mountains Association Online Newsletter.
We hope you will enjoy the latest news from the
Smokies as well as information about interesting
people, places, and things to do!
| Experts Teach 174 Classes On Smokies Flora & Fauna |
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Photo of goat's rue by Kris Light.
The park's Annual Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage hikes,
lectures, and workshops will be held outdoors all over
the Smokies and inside at the Mills Auditorium in
Gatlinburg from April 23-29.
World experts in wildflowers, bears, birds, salamanders,
trees, moss -- you name it -- will lead hikes and show
slides and lecture on a wide range of topics.
Yes, 174 different expert-led events are offered!
Act quickly to reserve your spot before the most popular
events fill up!! www.SpringWildflowerPilgrimage.org
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| Know Your Wildflowers |
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To learn about wildflowers -- where they bloom, when
they bloom -- which ones are poisonous, which ones
are medicinal -- you need this beautiful, handy-dandy
guide.
240 beautiful full-color, color-coded pages for only
$11.95.
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| Secretary of Interior & NPS Director Visit Smokies |
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Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne and National
Park Service Director Mary Bomar visited Great Smoky
Mountains National Park on March 13.
The purpose of the visit was to invite and receive
suggestions fon what special programs should be
implemented between now and the 100th anniverary of
the NPS in 2016.
Details are available at www.nps.gov/2016
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| Get Your Park Pass HERE! Great Deals!! |
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Get your park pass from us!! No matter which parks you
are planning to visit.
If you buy your 12 month pass to America's national
parks, national forests, BLM and U.S. Fish and Wildlife
refuges, from us, most of the money stays in the
Smokies!
$80 gets you and everyone else in your vehicle into all
national parks, forests, etc. for 1 year from the date of
purchase.
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| Bird Songs Captured Live in the Smokies |
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Coming Soon... A super 2 CD set of bird songs
captured inside the Park by wilderness sound recordist
Mark Dunaway.
Click on the link below to read about the amazing
couple who endured 3 years of hardship making these
incredible recordings.
Check back with us in a couple of weeks for
availability...the CDs will be available soon.
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| Get It While It Lasts -- Sourwood Honey |
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With all the disasters in the beehives lately, you may
want to stock up on sourwood honey while we still have
it in our stores.
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| Wearable Wildflowers |
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Wear your wildflowers! Award-winning art from the
2007 Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage appears on white or
natural t-shirts in sizes from S to XL.
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Early Spring! |
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Photo of hepatica blossom by Carol Wolfe.
Volunteer naturalist Tom Harrington reports surprisingly
good blooms of hepatic, spring-beauty, violets, and
trailing arbutus on the lower end of Low Gap Trail.
He even noted some spring-beauties on the
Appalachian Trail.
Around the Sugarlands, spicebush and periwinkle are
blooming.
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