Smoky Sites
- The Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- The Great Smoky Mountains
- The Great Smoky Mountains Reference DatabaseThis is a list of reference material...mainly scientific and technical reports that deal with some facet of the Smokies, though there are transcripts of government hearings and a few cookbooks, social studies, photography books, and what-not thrown in. It's dry reading (just a list of bibliographic material, not an index with hyperlinks to the actual articles and information). But if you're interested in "Changes in the Spruce-Fir avifauna of Mt.
Guyot Tennessee 1967-1985," "Chromite paragenesis in alpine-type
ultramafic rocks of the Southern Appalachians," "Early residents of Sugarlands Valley, including Forks of the
River, Fighting Creek, Sugarlands, and White Oak Flats," or "Cellular slime molds in soils of Southern
Appalachian spruce-fir forests," this is where to look. The neatest thing about this resource is that it IS a searchable database. If you need Smoky Mountain scientific studies, look here!
- The Mountain People: How They Lived
The Smokies (and the entire East Tennessee area) are gorgeous all year round, but especially in Fall and Spring. The autumn leaf display across ridge after ridge of the old, round-shouldered mountains is so brilliant that many photos of them, like the one here, seem to have been retouched by a photographer (how else, folks who are not from around here wonder, could they be so crimson and orange and gold?). The winter display of natural beauty is quiet, mainly consisting of artistically frozen waterfalls and bare black tree branches against the muted colors of the fallen and now dulled autum leaves or the stunning purity of stark white snow. The spring is lovely, though on a more intimate scale than the wholesale leaf color changes of autumn. The hills blossom with spectacular white dogwood (with the occasional pink-flowering tree tossed in), reddish-pruple redbud, and many flowering shrubs such as daffodil-yellow forsythia. Even more initimate is the profusion of tiny wildflowers that carpet entire mountain meadows. Last, in summer the Smokies become a steamy green realm lush with verdant growth at all levels. Though the American Chestnut is gone, mountain laurel still grows in hells and fiddlehead ferns still raise their coiled stalks from mossy banks.
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Animals of the Smokies
On-Line Literature Featuring the Smokies and their Inhabitants
Just Over the Next Ridge by Carson Brewer
Interesting General Tennessee Links
VIC's Tennessee Links
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