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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Great Smoky Mountains"”.
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A vegetation analysis of the Great Smoky Mountains
Open Restriction set for Item 112617 on 2019-10-10T18:38:31Z with date null by astein@illinois.edu.
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Landscape Ecology of Birds on Mount Leconte, Great Smoky Mountains National Park
… component of wildlife resources in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The present study explored how forest structure and composition of deciduous-coniferous ecotones influenced diversity, richness, and relative abundance of bird species and how bird species responded to the …
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National Park Service Cave and Karst Resources Management Case Study: Great Smoky Mountains National Park
… reactive cave focused management. The use of Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GRSM) as a case study supports the need to develop and implement a proactive cave and karst management plan specific to their resources. Management decisions with regards to cave and karst resources currently …
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An investigation of ozone and sulfur dioxide concentrations in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
… concentrations were made in remote areas of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park using an instrumented aircraft. The study was conducted because the Park was designated an area to receive maximum protection from air pollutants and it was deemed desirable to determine the existing levels of …
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Barriers to and Motivations for Curriculum-Based Education Program Participation at Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GRSM) provides quality education programs to local schools. In order to continue this success and expand programs to reach more middle and high school students, a mixed methods study was conducted to help better understand why local middle and high school …
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Characterizing the Respiration of Stems and Roots of Three Hardwood Tree Species in the Great Smoky Mountains
… growing seasons at two contrasting sites in the Great Smoky Mountains to investigate diurnal and seasonal patterns in respiration and to develop prediction models based on environmental and plant parameters. CER of small roots (d<0-8 mm) was measured with a newly developed system which allows …
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A spatial analysis of management techniques used on nuisance black bears in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA (1990-2015)
… an important issue for wildlife officials in Great Smoky Mountains National Park since it was first established in 1934. In the Park’s early decades, biologists used capture and relocation as the primary method of management for nuisance bears. In 1990, capture and on-site release was …
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Using geographic information systems to examine red wolf home range and habitat use in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
… the reintroduced red wolf (Canis rufus) in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP). To facilitate this GIS analysis, the original telemetry data was first converted from obsolete file formats into a contemporary database. When spatial movement patterns of animals are analyzed with regard …
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The Effects of Prescribed Burning by the National Park Service on Pine -Oak Forests Within Great Smoky Mountains National Park
The National Park Service (NPS) at Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) has implemented prescribed burning of pine-oak forests in an attempt to restore and maintain this fire-dependent forest type, which is converting to a mesic broadleaf forest after a long period of fire suppression. One …
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Assessing the Reliability of Computer Simulation Modeling for Monitoring and Managing Indicators of Wilderness Solitude in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
… and camping encounters in the backcountry of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This study was designed to model visitor use and inter-group encounters in the Cosby and Big Creek areas of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which are located within the park's proposed wilderness area. Two …
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The Effects of Environmental Complexity on Community Structure in Woodland Centipedes
… centipede diversity among similar sites in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park of eastern Tennessee and the Nantahala National Forest of western North Carolina is related to the structural complexity of these microhabitats.
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Big Rock Candy Mountain: Photographs of the Great Smoky Mountain Tourist Towns.
… Rock Candy Mountain: Photographs from the Great Smoky Mountain Tourist Towns</em>, her Master of Fine Arts exhibition held at the Reece Museum, Johnson City, Tennessee from September 22 to December 18, 2009. The exhibition consists of 17 large-scale color Archival Inkjet Prints edited from …
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Toward the preservation of rural, cultural, historic landscapes: a method for evaluating nineteenth century Blue Ridge farms
… Shenandoah National Park in Luray, Virginia, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and the Historic Landsmarks Commission in Richmond, Virginia. The method was designed so that every farm evaluated by means of the checksheet can be scored based on the degree to which it …
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Perceptions of Stakeholders in the Pi Beta Phi Elementary School Parks as Classrooms Program.
… Gatlinburg, Tennessee, in partnership with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, began development and implementation of a Parks As Classrooms curriculum that encompassed all nine-grade levels of the K-8 school. The purpose of this case study was to evaluate the Parks As Classrooms program …
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Stand structure, growth, and mortality in southern Appalachian spruce-fir
… Recreation Area (NRA) of Virginia, the Black Mountains of North Carolina, and the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina). Baseline conditions were documented to accommodate future efforts to determine actual phenomena of forest decline in a highly disturbed ecosystem. …
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Regeneration Dynamics in Old -Growth and Second-Growth Southern Appalachian Cove Forests
… and a second-growth cove forest in the Great Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee were studied over the course of four contiguous growing seasons. Woody shrub and herbaceous species in the regeneration layer were also investigated. The effects of disturbance and seasonal light …
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Spiritual, But Not Religious Identities in U.S. Faith-Based Activism: Case Studies in the Nipponzan Myohoji Order and the Catholic Worker Movement
… nuclear bombings; and events at the Buddhist Great Smoky Mountains Peace Pagoda. I argue that these individuals form these alliances because in working with a Catholic and/or Buddhist group, they find a venue for activism which both accommodates their spiritual motivations and includes a …
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Holomorphology and systematics of the eastern Nearctic stonefly genus Remenus Ricker (Plecoptera: Perlodidae)
… and Kondratieff, sp. n. is described from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee, U.S.A. The new species is the fourth species to be included in the genus Remenus and is differentiated from R. bilobatus (Needham and Claassen, 1925), R. duffieldi Nelson and …
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