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Tremont Teacher-Naturalist Jeremy Johnson talks rocks with a group of students from Rockwood School District in Missouri. Photo by Rich Bryant, courtesy of Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont.
Holly Kays

Park and partners work to expand environmental education outreach

Anne Thomas-Abbott had a “profound” experience this October as she observed students taking part in a National Park Service curriculum about trees and carbon sequestration. The power of the lesson came from the real-life, hands-on engagement in the forest, as students measured trees in the Look Rock area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park to find out how much carbon specific trees could capture and

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Holly Kays December 15, 2024
National Park Service staff are charged with helping to preserve and protect the lands in their care for future generations. Ranger programs are just one way the agency works to fulfill that mission. Photo by Holly Kays, courtesy of Smokies Life.
Holly Kays

Ranger programs inspire education and connection in the Smokies

To experience Deep Creek Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park is to experience the presence of water. It flows through placid runs, over rocky riffles, and down the stony faces of Indian Creek and Toms Branch waterfalls. It feeds the trees, the wildflowers, the mosses, and the lichens. The sound of its journey is a constant backdrop to the rustling of wind in the

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Holly Kays December 5, 2024

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The Great Smokies Welcome Center is located on U.S. 321 in Townsend, TN, 2 miles from the west entrance to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Visitors can get information about things to see and do in and around the national park and shop from a wide selection of books, gifts, and other Smokies merchandise. Daily, weekly, and annual parking tags for the national park are also available.

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