Great Smoky Mountains National Park Podcasts & Blog » Audio http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog Enjoy the Smokies Courtesy of the Great Smoky Mountains Association! Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:38:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK Free Audio Tours of the Park via Hwy. 441 http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/free-audio-tours-of-the-park-via-441/ http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/free-audio-tours-of-the-park-via-441/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:02:04 +0000 admin http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/?p=785 Below are links to free audio tours you can listen to when you’re driving through the park on Highway 441.

If you’re traveling through the park from Tennessee to North Carolina–

Or if you’re traveling through the park from North Carolina to Tennessee–

]]> http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/free-audio-tours-of-the-park-via-441/feed/ 2 GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK Bear Podcasts # 21-23 http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/bear-podcasts-22-23/ http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/bear-podcasts-22-23/#comments Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:33:27 +0000 admin http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/?p=288 Click here for #21. Bear Blooper # 2: What To Do If a Bear Wakes Up in Your Office.

Click here for #22. There’s a Bear in My Apple Tree!

Click here for #23. Bear Blooper # 3: Skydiving Cub.

]]> http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/bear-podcasts-22-23/feed/ 0 GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK Bear Podcasts # 16-20 http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/bear-podcasts-18-23/ http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/bear-podcasts-18-23/#comments Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:18:25 +0000 admin http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/?p=287 Click here for #16. How Bears Learn to Break Into Cars

Click here for #17. How Bears Learn to Get Into Dumpsters.

Click here for #18. A Famous Bear Escapade Inside a Dumpster.

Click here for #19. Bear # 75, the Most Famous Bear in the Smokies.

Click here for #20. Bear Blooper # 1: Who’s That in My Rear View Mirror?

]]> http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/bear-podcasts-18-23/feed/ 0 GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK Bear Podcasts # 11-15 http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/bear-podcasts-12-17/ http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/bear-podcasts-12-17/#comments Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:18:11 +0000 admin http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/?p=286 Click here for #11. What To Do If You Encounter a Bear in the Front Country, Part 2.

Click here for #12. What To Do If You Encounter a Bear on a Hiking Trail.

Click here for #13. How To Decide Whether a Bear is Being Defensive or Aggressive.

Click here for #14. Why Bears Follow People, Part 1.

Click here for #15. Why Bears Follow People, Part 2.

]]> http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/bear-podcasts-12-17/feed/ 0 GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK Bear Podcasts # 6-10 http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/bear-podcasts-6-11/ http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/bear-podcasts-6-11/#comments Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:17:49 +0000 admin http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/?p=285 Click here for #6. How Close Can You Safely Get to a Bear?

Click here for #7. What To Do If You See a Bear at a Park Cabin.

Click here for #8. What To Do If You See a Bear on Private Property.

Click here for #9. Don’t Run or Climb a Tree to Escape a Bear!

Click here for #10. What To Do If You Encounter a Bear in the Front Country, Part 1.

]]> http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/bear-podcasts-6-11/feed/ 0 GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK Bear Podcasts # 1-5 http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/all-23-bear-podcasts/ http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/all-23-bear-podcasts/#comments Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:08:28 +0000 admin http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/?p=284 Click here for #1. Introduction to Great Smoky Mountains National Park Supervisory Wildlife Biologist, Kim Delozier.

Click here for #2. The Density of Bears in the Smokies in Proximity to the Density of Tourists in the Smokies.

Click here for #3. The Natural History of the Black Bear.

Click here for #4. How Bears Lose Their Fear of Humans.

Click here for #5. Evaluating the 3 Kinds of Feeding Behavior of Smokies Black Bears.

]]> http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/all-23-bear-podcasts/feed/ 0 GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK First Bear Blooper + 3 New Podcasts Loaded! http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/first-bear-blooper-3-new-podcasts-loaded/ http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/first-bear-blooper-3-new-podcasts-loaded/#comments Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:02:43 +0000 admin http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/?p=278 For the first of Kim Delozier’s hilarious tales of black bear encounters gone awry, click here, and you’ll see we’ve loaded 3 other new podcasts about black bears to go along with the Bear Blooper!

]]> http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/first-bear-blooper-3-new-podcasts-loaded/feed/ 0 GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK 3 More Bear Pocasts Loaded http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/3-more-bear-pocasts-loaded/ http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/3-more-bear-pocasts-loaded/#comments Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:43:24 +0000 admin http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/?p=275 Learn and laugh with Kim Delozier, Supervisory Wildlife Biologist, as he teaches about bears.

]]> http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/3-more-bear-pocasts-loaded/feed/ 0 GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK Bear Talk…a New Series of Podcasts! http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/bear-talka-new-series-of-podcasts/ http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/bear-talka-new-series-of-podcasts/#comments Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:13:04 +0000 admin http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/?p=272 Kim Delozier, Supervisory Wildlife Biologist for Great Smoky Mountains National Park, just recorded a series of 23 short podcasts about black bears in the Smokies.

The first 3 are already posted. More will come shortly!

For everything you always wanted to know about bears but were afraid to ask, click here. Or to access the podcasts through iTunes, click here. To go to the RSS feed directly, click here.

]]> http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/bear-talka-new-series-of-podcasts/feed/ 0 GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK It’s Here!! Bird Calls of the Smokies Masterpiece!! http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/its-here-bird-calls-of-the-smokies-masterpiece/ http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/its-here-bird-calls-of-the-smokies-masterpiece/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:39:55 +0000 admin http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/?p=227 Mark Dunaway’s 3-years of grueling labor crawling, falling, sneaking, … all over the park is finally finished and available on audio CD.

The job is not glamorous. Mark agreed to record some podcasts about some of his triumphs and travails as he worked to create his wonderful bird recordings.

Click here to listen to MY FAVORITE recording — Mark’s recording of a scream — not a bird or another animal — but his own!! : )

If you’d like to take a look at his CD, click here.

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