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GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK
Cool Digs

August 25, 2008 – 8:17 am

I used to dream about discovering Incan gold when I was a little kid… and then I took an archaeology class during high school and realized there was NO WAY I had the patience to slowly scrape dirt away and meticulously record where it came from. In six weeks of excavating, I also found [...]

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Possum in a Pear Tree

August 21, 2008 – 7:46 am

No, it’s not a hillbilly version of The Twelve Days of Christmas.
It’s Peter Possum patiently waiting for a pear to fall off a pear tree so he can eat it.
Photo by GSMA’s own Sharon Ryan.

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Smokey Bear Says…

August 18, 2008 – 9:42 am

Visit the Mount Cammerer firetower, one of the few remaining lookout towers in the Smokies!  
There are several trails to the Cammerer firetower, but all of them are long and steep (the shortest route is over ten miles round trip)…  just take it easy and stop frequently, because it’s definitely worth the climb. And [...]

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Dusk at Morton’s Overlook

August 15, 2008 – 2:37 pm

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Podcast Alley & Technorati

August 14, 2008 – 9:19 am

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Not Your Average Bunch of Fishermen!

August 7, 2008 – 10:50 am

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

August 7, 2008 – 7:32 am

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

August 4, 2008 – 9:22 am

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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