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Owl Prowl
Owl Eyes by Donna Eaton
Join us on Saturday, January 22, at 7:00 pm for our popular Owl Prowl. Venture into the woods around Sugarlands Visitor Center with naturalist Liz Domingue to try your luck locating these denizens of the night.
Be prepared for cold weather. Wear warm clothing, hiking boots, and bring gloves, water, a flashlight or headlight, and binoculars.
Meet Liz at 7:00 pm at Sugarlands Visitor Center. A registration fee of $10 is required beforehand. Children are always welcome and if they're under 12 there is no charge.
To register call 865-436-7318, Ext. 222 or 254. This is always a fun event for adults and kids alike! |
110th Annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count
The longest running Citizen Science survey in the world, Audubon's annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC) will take place from December 14, 2010 to January 5, 2011.
Tens of thousands of volunteers throughout North America will brave winter weather to add a new layer to over a century of data.
We encourage everyone to participate in one or more of the four local counts sponsored by the National Audubon Society and the Knoxville Chapter of the Tennessee Ornithological Society (KTOS).
Knoxville, Sunday, January 2 Contact Dean Edwards,865-660-9701 [email protected]
Birders of all skill levels can participate. You can join a group in the field, cover an area on your own, or (if you live in the count area) count in your own backyard. |
New Business Members
Ober Gatlinburg 1001 Parkway Gatlinburg TN 37738 tel: 865.436.5423 [email protected] www.obergatlinburg.com
Ride America's newest aerial tramway to Ober Gatlinburg. Winter skiing & snow tubing, indoor ice rink, water raft rides, black bear habitat, restaurant/lounge, crafts & more.
The Park Vista 705 Cherokee Orchard Road Gatlinburg TN 37738 tel: 800.222.TREE [email protected] and [email protected] www.parkvista.com
William Britten Photography & Gallery 601 Glades Road No. 5 Gatlinburg TN 37738 tel: 865.599.4929 [email protected] www.williambritten.com |
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Bear in Snow by Brian Shults
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| Medicine Women and Herbal Remedies Upcoming Article in Smokies Life Magazine
| Yellowroot by Vernon Lix
Coming up in the spring issue of Smokies Life magazine will be a story on medicinal plants and the Smoky Mountain "medicine women" who used and use them. Here's a sneak peak of the latest story by Courtney Lix.
"The thing about doctors was that they were often in a hurry," Betty Lou Shepherd, Ila and Jerry's neighbor who grew up on the North Carolina side of the Smokies, tells me, "or they had new-fangled ideas and people didn't trust them."
"So you wouldn't go see a doctor unless you were bleeding to death or something like that?"
"Oh, no, not even then," she says with a smile.
Instead people looked to women in their communities who were gifted in the ways of preparing herbal remedies, midwifery, and had a steady hand for sewing wounds back together. Each community generally had at least one woman who was known for her "doctoring" skills, and was therefore accustomed to being sought out at all hours of the day and night.
Some women specialized in either midwifery or herbal medicines, but some women did everything, taking care of people in their communities in birth, illness, and death. Dolly Higden Wiggins, who embraced the role of community caretaker in the Alarka valley of the Smokies from the late 1800s through the mid 1900s, was one such woman. |
| 21st Wilderness Wildlife Week January 8-15, 2011 in Pigeon Forge
| Deer Herd in Cades Cove by Brian Shults Visitors to Wilderness Wildlife Week will enjoy more than 100 experts sharing their knowledge of the outdoors in more than 175 seminars, lectures, and hands-on workshops.
Get up close to nature with your choice of more than 50 guided walks and hikes. Music lovers will enjoy tunes performed by authentic Smoky Mountain musicians at AppalachiaFest.
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| A Year in the Park | Laurel Falls in Snow by Cindy Shults Rust
To see how the park looked in all four seasons of 2010, you can watch this beautiful video of The Year in Review by Valerie Polk.
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| Stan Jorstad Exhibit in Kodak | Great Smoky Mountains National Park by Stan Jorstad
You'll love the exhibit just installed in our Visitor Center in Kodak (3099 Winfield Dunn Parkway, 1.25 miles from Interstate Exit 407).
We have a permanent display of twenty-four panoramic photos of the nation's national parks by Stan Jorstad, a leader in panoramic photography.
Jorstad was friends with Ansel Adams and Elliot Porter. He was the first professional photographer to capture the breathtaking beauty of every one of our national parks.
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| Caretaker's Blog from Atop Mt. LeConte | Snowed in? No problem. Click here to see the High on LeConte blog.
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| Ski Patrol Video | Photo by Valerie Polk
Enjoy a video about the all volunteer Nordic Ski Patrol at Clingmans Dome by Valerie Polk.
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