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• Stewardship focus of Great Smoky Mountains National Park's 75th anniversary

  Photo by Stuart Marks: Great Smoky Mountains N.P overlooking Gatlinburg, TN. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is celebrating a major milestone in 2009. The park, established June 15, 1934, will mark its 75th anniversary with a yearlong celebration... Posted Jan 04 2009, 10:47 PM by accarrie with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Dolly Parton, knoxville, family vacation, clingmans dome, cades cove, Newfound Gap., Virtual Visitors Center, Gatlinburg Tennessee, celebration, Sevier County, Sugarlands, dollywood, pigeon forge, anniversary, Oconaluftee

• Smokies elk herd growing

  Photo Steve Dixon/SDIXON@CITIZEN-TIMES.com Nanci Bompey • NBompey@CITIZEN-TIMES.com CATALOOCHEE VALLEY – An eight-year long effort to reintroduce elk into Great Smoky Mountains National Park has nearly doubled the number of animals in the park, boding... Posted Dec 26 2008, 12:57 PM by accorie with | with no comments Filed under: wildlife, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Smokies Elk Project, elk, Cataloochee Valley

• 33rd Annual Festival of Christmas Past, Great Smoky Mountains

  Photo skinnymoose.com The Great Smoky Mountains National Park will hold the 33rd annual “Festival of Christmas Past” celebration 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Dec. 13. The event is free to the public and will take place at Sugarlands Visitor Center. The event... Posted Dec 05 2008, 09:23 AM by accorie with | with no comments Filed under: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Sugarlands Visitor Center, Fallestival of Christmas Past

• Great Smoky Mountains National Park celebrates 75th anniversary next year

  By KATY KOONTZ Universal Press Syndicate GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK | Layered folds of dusky purple mountain peaks stretch to the horizon, pockets of blue haze softly settling among the ridges. Their outline was bolder and fiercer eons ago when... Posted Nov 17 2008, 07:02 AM by accarrie with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Tennessee, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, knoxville, newfound gap, family vacation, north carolina, gatlinburg, clingmans dome, museums, anniverasry, cades cove

• Florida Man's Shoe Found in Stomach of Slain Black Bear [follow-up]

  Monday, August 18, 2008, Associated Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Authorities cut open a slain bear and found a shoe lost by a Florida man while fighting off a bear that attacked his 8-year-old son in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The footwear... Posted Aug 19 2008, 07:56 AM by Stu Marks with | with no comments Filed under: Tennessee, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, bear attack, hiking trails, shoe found

• Boy survives bear attack [photo]

  By DUNCAN MANSFIELD The Associated Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn. | An 8-year-old Florida boy scrambled up a creek embankment ahead of his father and older brother on a day hike in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. That’s when he confronted an 86... Posted Aug 13 2008, 11:41 AM by Stu Marks with | with no comments Filed under: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, bear attack, hiking trails, survivor

• Survey finds new species in national park in N.C.

  Photo by Stu Marks Another reason to love the Great Smoky Mountains National Park . (The photo shows some of the great plant life found, not a new species.) By The Associated PressTuesday, July 22, 2008 The Times and Democrat.com ASHEVILLE , N.C. - A... Posted Jul 25 2008, 10:44 AM by accorie with | with no comments Filed under: Great Smoky Mountains National Park

• Great Events at 75th Anniversary of Smoky's in 2009

  View from Newfound Gap Road The Great Smoky Mountains National Park has always been a favorite of our family. There is so much to do there you could possibly never get it all done in a lifetime. Next year they will be celebrating their 75 th anniversary... Posted Jul 07 2008, 03:39 PM by accorie with | with no comments Filed under: Hiking, kayaking, Great Smoky Mountains National Park