Tag Archives: Forest Fire

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK
Bad Smoke in the Smokies

Here’s the view today from the Look Rock Webcam. Looks pretty smoky doesn’t it?

It’s an 800 acre fire with a new little sister fire started, the NPS thinks, by lightning during an all-to-brief shower!! Not enough water to help, but lightning to set another fire?!? Bad luck.

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK
Scorched Forest after a Fire

Photo by Doug Southerland. Thanks Doug!
And here are 3 wildflower shots, also by Doug Southerland. The pink flower is a bleeding heart, first the yellow one is a common cinquefoil, and the last one is ragwort.