Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage April 21-25, 2010
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Park Issues

Air Quality

Air pollution is shrinking scenic views, damaging plants, and degrading high elevation streams and soils in the Great Smoky Mountains. Even human health is at risk. Most pollution originates outside the park and is created by power plants, industry, and automobiles. More...
                 

Hemlock Woolly Adelgid

Eastern hemlock, one of the most common trees in the Great Smoky Mountains, is under attack from the Asian hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA). This tiny, non-native aphid-like insect has been seen in most parts of the park, including on some of the massive old-growth hemlocks that may be 500 years old. No hemlock deaths have been recorded yet, but many trees show crown damage already. More...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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