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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Great Smoky Mountains National Park"”.
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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
<p>As discussed in the National Parks Service’s (NPS) Directors Orders/Natural Resources Management Reference Manual #77 and the 2006 NPS Management Policy Handbook, implementing a management plan specifically for cave and karst resources within a national park is paramount to afford these …
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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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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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Toward the preservation of rural, cultural, historic landscapes: a method for evaluating nineteenth century Blue Ridge farms
… documented in the archives of the 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 …
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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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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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Incorporating microclimate into habitat suitability analysis for plethodonitd salamanders
… biological scales to plethodontid salamanders in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Understory vegetation structure was found to be an important addition to canopy cover in buffering near-surface temperatures and improved accuracy of microclimatic temperature estimates. The combined effects of …
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Systematic studies of some pseudoscorpions (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpionida) from the southeastern United States
… counties of East Tennessee and various state parks from Middle and West Tennessee; Breaks Interstate Park, Dickinson Co., Virginia; Blue Ridge Parkway, Floyd Co., Virginia; Mt. Lake, Giles Co., Virginia; and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Specimens were obtained from these …
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Assessing and Evaluating Recreation Resource Impacts: Spatial Analytical Approaches
… impact assessment and monitoring project in Great Smoky Mountains National Park provided the basis for the analyses. Three spatial issues were examined and presented as three papers, designed for journal submission. The purpose of the first paper was to improve our understanding of the …
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Understanding Effects of Anthropogenic Activities on Element Cycling in Temperate Forest Watersheds
… in temperate forests in the southern Appalachian Mountains. </p><p>In Chapter 2, we present results from repeated synoptic surveys of streamwater chemistry for ~30 watersheds spanning one of the largest nitrogen (N) deposition gradients in North America, located within the Great Smoky Mountains …
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Modeling the Effects of Acid Deposition and Natural Organic Acids on Surface Waters
… waters to this deposition reduction. Streams in Great Smoky Mountain National Park (GRSM), in Tennessee and North Carolina, generally show a delayed response in contrast to lakes in the Adirondacks in New York State which are responding relatively rapidly to decreases in acid deposition. In this …