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1. Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) provides the largest protected bear habitat in the East.
-www.nps.gov

2. Over 200 species of birds are regularly sighted in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 85 of those migrate from the neotropics.
-www.nps.gov

3. Great Smoky Mountains National Park was established in 1934.
-www.nps.gov

4. Horace Kephart, author of Camping and Woodcraft, wrote many influential articles advocating the creation of a national park in The Great Smokies.
-www.pbs.org

5. Great Smoky Mountains Association is a nonprofit organization authorized by Congress to support the Park's educational, scientific, and historical programs.
-thegreatsmokymountains.org

6. The Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee are the tallest mountains in the Appalachian chain, hosting the world's greatest diversity of plant, animal, and insect life of any region in a temperate climate zone - including more than 100 species of native trees.
-www.pbs.org

7. In 1927, philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr., when he was shown photographs and told about the impending destruction of the old-growth forests, initially pledged $1.5 million - then reconsidered, and offered $5 million to help establish the GSMNP.
-www.pbs.org

8. Great Smoky Mountains National Park contains some of the largest tracts of wilderness in the East and is a critical sanctuary for a wide variety of animals. In the park are 66 species of mammals, over 200 varieties of birds, 50 native fish species, and more than 80 types of reptiles and amphibians.
-www.nps.gov

9. The symbol of the Smokies, the American Black Bear, is perhaps the most famous resident of the park. Great Smoky Mountains National Park provides the largest protected bear habitat in the East. Though populations are variable, biologists estimate approximately 1,500 bears live in the park, a density of approximately two bears per square mile.
-www.nps.gov

10. Great Smoky Mountains National Park has been called the "Salamander Capital of the World." In fact, lungless salamanders have undergone an extraordinary level of evolutionary diversification in the park - 24 species inhabit the park, making it the center of diversity for the family.
-www.nps.gov

11. More than 1,200 land-owners had to leave their land once the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was established. They left behind many farm buildings, mills, schools, and churches. Over 70 structures have since been preserved so that Great Smoky Mountains National Park now contains the largest collection of historic log buildings in the East.
-www.nps.gov

12. Salamanders are an especially abundant and diverse group in the Great Smokies. In fact, the great majority of vertebrate (backboned) animals, including human visitors, in the park on any given day are salamanders.
-www.nps.gov

13. Hellbenders are the largest salamanders in the Great Smoky Mountains - sometimes reaching 29 inches in length!
-www.nps.gov

14. When the first white settlers reached the Great Smoky Mountains in the 1700s, the Cherokee, one of the most culturally advanced peoples on the continent, had permanent towns, cultivated croplands, political systems, and extensive networks of trails. Most of the Cherokee were forcibly removed in the 1830s in an episode known as the Trail of Tears.
-www.nps.gov

15. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park boasts over 2,100 miles of streams and is home to nearly 60 species of fish in 12 different families, including lampreys, darters, shiners, minnows, suckers, bass, and trout. Of these 2,100 miles of streams, only about 800 miles contain fish.
-www.nps.gov

16. Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont is a non-profit residential environmental education center that provides in-depth experiences through education programs that celebrate ecological and cultural diversity, foster stewardship, and nurture appreciation of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
-www.gsmit.org

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