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The George Masa Photo Database includes 4,000 data points from collections in Western North Carolina.
Clingmans Dome has been officially renamed Kuwohi, which is the Cherokee word for mulberry place. Kuwohi is a sacred place for the Cherokee people.
The black bear has come to symbolize wildlife in the Smokies, and the animal frequently appears on the covers of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park's literature. Most of the range's adult eastern black bears weigh between 100 pounds (45 kg) and 300 pounds (140 kg), although some grow to more than 500 pounds (230 kg).
George Masa will be honored with a new historical marker on Patton Avenue just west of Pack Square in Asheville, to be unveiled April 8 at 10:30 a.m. Word from the Smokies: Marker honors ...
In December 1997, a large group of scientists and interested administrators and educators gathered in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, to discuss starting an ATBI for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Soon after the meeting in December 1997, Discover Life in America was created as the administrative organization for the ATBI of the Great Smoky ...
The Asheville area regional government body, the Land-of-Sky Regional Council, uses this nickname. The federally recognized Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) have a reserve in this region known as Qualla Boundary; it is situated adjacent to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Their capital is at Cherokee, North Carolina. This region ...
ASHEVILLE — Great Smoky Mountains National Park is reopening at 11 a.m. Jan. 17 after being closed the previous two days for hazardous weather conditions, the park announced.. Mountain areas ...
Smokies Life is a nonprofit organization that supports Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the southeastern United States. It was authorized by Congress in 1953 to support the Park's educational, scientific, and historical programs.