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Did you know?
The Great Smoky Mountains contain more than 130 species of trees and 4,000 other plant species.
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Big South Fork of the Cumberland River, photo courtesy Chuck Summers, NPS.
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Search the entire Sierra Club:
Save Our Smokies (SOS), a coalition of individuals and
organizations that are devoted to the goal of preserving the integrity of
the Great Smoky Mountains National Park as a wilderness, a biodiversity
reserve, and a place for the quiet enjoyment of nature. Find out more...
Spencer Sewage Treatment Plant threatens Fall Creek Falls State
Park and unique cave ecosystem. The city of Spencer has constructed a sewage treatment plant, which plans to allow the plant effluent to be discharged into Dry Fork Creek. Find out more... |

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