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Not Your Average Bunch of Fishermen!

Don’t ever mix electricity and water… unless you’re a professional with the national park’s fisheries division and have a very thick pair of rubber gloves.  

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More Weird ‘Shrooms

Ann Froschauer, 75th Anniversary Coordinator, has found a new interest: strange shrooms growing behind the headquarters building.

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Wet Stuff: Fungus, Mushrooms, Salamanders

Ann Froschauer and her friend Amanda took a hike and recorded many wet and wonderful things.
This is Jakes Creek.

This is a photo of Ann and Amanda taken with a waterproof camera showing what they look like to fish. Ann says, “No wonder we scare them!”

Here’s a delicate white mushroom.

And a pretty red one.

A yukky [...]

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He’s Gotta Be Part Monkey…

Will Blozan has hiked thousands of miles through Great Smoky Mountains National Park and climbed hundreds of feet into the tops of the park’s tallest hemlocks.  As part of a very special hike hosted during the Wildflower Pilgrimage earlier this March, a group of us were able to follow this intrepid tree climber into the [...]

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“Brookies!” Native Smokies Brook Trout

Courtesy of Ann Froschauer, here are some great photos of the fisheries rangers at work and some beautiful Brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis), the only trout native to the Smokies.
The NPS and Trout Unlimited have been successfully restoring native Brook trout populations in the park (and removing non-native Rainbow trout).
Here’s a close up of a brook [...]