How Wolves Changed Rivers in Yellowstone National Park
This short video presents a very interesting look at how wolves changed the environment, in particular the rivers of Yellowstone National Park, after being reintroduced to the park after a nearly 70-year absence:
Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com
Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com
Lixus albomarginatus, Le lixe à marge blanche
Le Lixe à marge blanche, Lixus albomarginatus, est un petit Coléoptère d'environ 1 cm appartenant à la famille des Curculionidae. Lixe à marge blanche Lixus albomarginatus Ce petit Charançon dont le corps est recouvert d'une poudre de couleur brun roux est facilement reconnaissable à la bande latérale blanche caractéristique qu'il porte sur le thorax.
Volunteers Needed for Big South Fork National Public Lands Day
Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will be celebrating National Public Lands Day on Saturday, September 27, 2014. National Public Lands Day is the nation's largest, single-day volunteer event in which eight federal agencies as well as other groups partner together to maintain and protect the environment.
Anyone wishing to volunteer should be at Oscar Blevins Farm located off West Bandy Creek Loop Road by 9:00 a.m. ET. A safety briefing will be conducted prior to beginning work. Work will start at 9:00 a.m. and end by 2:00 p.m.. Volunteers are needed for trail clearing and trash pickup. Everyone should wear sturdy shoes and bring bug spray and drinking water.
More information can be found here , or you may call Effie Houston, Volunteer Coordinator, at (423) 569-9778.
Jeff
Hiking in the Smokies
Anyone wishing to volunteer should be at Oscar Blevins Farm located off West Bandy Creek Loop Road by 9:00 a.m. ET. A safety briefing will be conducted prior to beginning work. Work will start at 9:00 a.m. and end by 2:00 p.m.. Volunteers are needed for trail clearing and trash pickup. Everyone should wear sturdy shoes and bring bug spray and drinking water.
More information can be found here , or you may call Effie Houston, Volunteer Coordinator, at (423) 569-9778.
Jeff
Hiking in the Smokies
Camponotus vagus, le Camponote vagabond
Le Camponote vagabond, Camponotus vagus, appartenant à l'ordre des Hyménoptères , est une grosse Fourmi de nos contrées dont la taille oscille entre 6 et 13 mm. Camponote vagabond Camponotus vagus Outre par sa taille exceptionnelle, elle est facilement reconnaissable à son corps de couleur noir mat, muni de longs poils blancs sur le gastre (partie postérieure de l'abdomen). Cette
One Man's Perspective on Solitude and Wilderness
Every couple of months 68-year-old Ed Zevely rides into the Colorado high country to camp for weeks at a time, and does it completely alone. Through thunderstorms, open meadows and treacherous passes, he finds his own patch of serenity. Ed provides an interesting perspective, perhaps one that all of us should consider as we go through life.
Open Door to Solitude from Filson on Vimeo.
Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com
Open Door to Solitude from Filson on Vimeo.
Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com
Cupido minimus, l'Argus frêle
L'Argus frêle, Cupido minimus, est le plus petit Papillon de France avec une envergure ne dépassant pas 2 cm. Ce minuscule Lycène est assez difficile à repérer en vol du fait de sa petite taille et de son vol tourbillonnant mais la tâche du photographe devient plus aisée lorsqu'il se pose dans la végétation. Argus frêle Cupido minimus
Big South Fork Offers Guided Hikes at Historic Rugby
Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area rangers invite everyone to join them on two very enjoyable walks in the park adjoining Historic Rugby. The Big South Fork, in partnership with Historic Rugby, is staffing a visitor contact station in the Board of Aid to Land Ownership building at Rugby this summer. In addition to providing information and orientation to Big South Fork visitors, rangers are providing guided hikes into the Big South Fork every Saturday and Sunday through the end of September.
The Meeting of the Waters hike on Saturday is a moderately difficult 2.3 mile loop. The trail begins by descending into the Clear Fork River gorge to the historic Gentlemen's Swimming Hole. It continues along the Clear Fork River to the Meeting of the Waters where the Clear Fork is joined by White Oak Creek. Along the way hikers can view some of the prettiest forest to be found on the Cumberland Plateau. From the Meeting of the Waters, the trail begins a short, steep climb back to the ridge top where it follows an easy path back to the trailhead. The entire hike takes about two and one half hours.
The Gentleman's Swimming Hole Trail hike on Sunday is a moderately difficult, .8 mile round trip into and out of the Clear Fork gorge to the swimming spot once favored by early Rugby colonists. This one hour walk provides a journey through a pretty hemlock and rhododendron forest and offers a chance to sit for a few minutes alongside the beautiful Clear Fork River. Both hikes begin at 1:00 p.m. (ET) from the Rugby Trailhead located next to the Laurel Dale Cemetery in Historic Rugby. Comfortable walking shoes are recommended.
For more information, call park headquarters at (423) 569-9778. You may reach the Big South Fork Rugby Contact Station at (423) 628-2991.
Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com
The Meeting of the Waters hike on Saturday is a moderately difficult 2.3 mile loop. The trail begins by descending into the Clear Fork River gorge to the historic Gentlemen's Swimming Hole. It continues along the Clear Fork River to the Meeting of the Waters where the Clear Fork is joined by White Oak Creek. Along the way hikers can view some of the prettiest forest to be found on the Cumberland Plateau. From the Meeting of the Waters, the trail begins a short, steep climb back to the ridge top where it follows an easy path back to the trailhead. The entire hike takes about two and one half hours.
The Gentleman's Swimming Hole Trail hike on Sunday is a moderately difficult, .8 mile round trip into and out of the Clear Fork gorge to the swimming spot once favored by early Rugby colonists. This one hour walk provides a journey through a pretty hemlock and rhododendron forest and offers a chance to sit for a few minutes alongside the beautiful Clear Fork River. Both hikes begin at 1:00 p.m. (ET) from the Rugby Trailhead located next to the Laurel Dale Cemetery in Historic Rugby. Comfortable walking shoes are recommended.
For more information, call park headquarters at (423) 569-9778. You may reach the Big South Fork Rugby Contact Station at (423) 628-2991.
Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com
Facebook, night-times and Iceland volcanoes
With nearly a hundred thousand page views I’m very excited about how much of a success this blog appears to be. To date I’ve even earned nearly $60 in advertising revenue! However, I do want to continue to reach out to a large audience so I’ve taken a reluctant step into social media. I have set up a Facebook Page for the blog which contains links to the latest blog updates as well as other interesting geologically related matters. We’ll see how it goes. If you are a Facebook user, have a look and follow. Followers on Facebook can post their own interesting information or even ask questions. Of course readers can continue to comment as usual on this blog.
On another matter, I was travelling into Queensland earlier this week via the Mount Lindesay Highway. It is a scenic but winding road (I was going to use the adjective ‘windy’ but since the weather that day was windy it could have got confusing! – crazy English language). I noticed many road interesting road cuttings including what appeared to be a coal seam. But, I could not stop because time was against me. I returned back the same way that night so I thought I’d try and do something I’ve never done… night-time geology. It was not very successful. Trying to identify the larger scale features in a cutting by torch and car light is not an easy task. Even trying to look at sand grains was beyond me. My assessment of night time geology: don’t bother!
On yet another matter, I want to draw readers attention to this weeks volcanic activity in Iceland. Some interesting things are occurring under glacial cover. The only way that geologists can have an idea of what is going on is by measuring earth quakes. The number of earthquakes around two important concealed volcanoes has been in the many thousands this week. This has made processing the data time consuming but presently the seismic records indicate some strange goings-on. In particular it appears that magma from the volcano Bardarbunga has made its way into fissures that are part of another volcano, Grimsvotn. This is quite unusual and with the added background that these volcanoes have a very turbulent history and have taken many lives, all the more fascinating. Volcano café has a good summary of the situation.
| A picture of sandstone with rock hammer marks at night: doesn't really work. |
On another matter, I was travelling into Queensland earlier this week via the Mount Lindesay Highway. It is a scenic but winding road (I was going to use the adjective ‘windy’ but since the weather that day was windy it could have got confusing! – crazy English language). I noticed many road interesting road cuttings including what appeared to be a coal seam. But, I could not stop because time was against me. I returned back the same way that night so I thought I’d try and do something I’ve never done… night-time geology. It was not very successful. Trying to identify the larger scale features in a cutting by torch and car light is not an easy task. Even trying to look at sand grains was beyond me. My assessment of night time geology: don’t bother!
On yet another matter, I want to draw readers attention to this weeks volcanic activity in Iceland. Some interesting things are occurring under glacial cover. The only way that geologists can have an idea of what is going on is by measuring earth quakes. The number of earthquakes around two important concealed volcanoes has been in the many thousands this week. This has made processing the data time consuming but presently the seismic records indicate some strange goings-on. In particular it appears that magma from the volcano Bardarbunga has made its way into fissures that are part of another volcano, Grimsvotn. This is quite unusual and with the added background that these volcanoes have a very turbulent history and have taken many lives, all the more fascinating. Volcano café has a good summary of the situation.
Lassie Makes a Comeback
| Pal, the proto-Lassie, in 1942 (Wikipedia). |
Entertainment-industry dog news is outside the remit of this blog, except that I recently mentioned Lassie's 1960s stint with some fictive version of the U.S. Forest Service
"She," played by another descendent of the legendary collie dog Pal, retains an 83 percent “'brand awareness' among Americans; words like 'loyal,' 'hero' and 'heartwarming' were most often associated with the character," reports the New York Times.
With brand loyalty like that, Lassie can sell stuff.
“Our ambitions are global,” said Michael R. Francis, DreamWorks Animation’s chief brand officer, “dog food, dog accessories, dog grooming, dog beds, dog training,” targeted mainly at adults. None of these planned Lassie products are available right now, but the studio says deals for all of them are in the works.
Appearing on store shelves soon, presumably.
Meloe proscarabeus, le Méloé printanier
Le Méloé printanier, Meloe proscarabeus, est un Coléoptère au corps mou plutôt original tant par sa forme et sa couleur noir bleuâtre que par les moeurs curieuses de ses larves dont la vie et la croissance, plutôt compliquées, sont parfaitement expliquées ici. Méloé printanier Meloe proscarabeus En effet, après sa naissance la larve du Méloé escalade les fleurs pour s'accrocher à une
Townsend Fall Heritage Festival and Old Timers Day
Next month is the 22nd Annual Townsend Fall Heritage Festival and Old Timers Day event.
Highlights for this year's festival include bluegrass music, mountain music jam sessions, storytelling, family activities, crafts by local artisans, great food, and demonstrations of a variety of traditional skills such as basketry, quilting, weaving, sorghum molasses, apple butter making, apple cider, beekeeping, and blacksmithing.
The event will take place on Friday, September 26th and Saturday, September 27th at the Townsend Visitors Center. For more information, please click here .
If planning to attend the event, be sure to make plans to stay in Townsend. If you've never had the pleasure of staying in the Townsend area, also known as the “Quiet Side of the Smokies”, you may want to note that it's much easier getting in and out of the park, and is fairly close to Cades Cove. If you need a rental cabin during your visit, be sure to visit our Townsend Accommodations page .
Jeff
Hiking in the Smokies
Highlights for this year's festival include bluegrass music, mountain music jam sessions, storytelling, family activities, crafts by local artisans, great food, and demonstrations of a variety of traditional skills such as basketry, quilting, weaving, sorghum molasses, apple butter making, apple cider, beekeeping, and blacksmithing.
The event will take place on Friday, September 26th and Saturday, September 27th at the Townsend Visitors Center. For more information, please click here .
If planning to attend the event, be sure to make plans to stay in Townsend. If you've never had the pleasure of staying in the Townsend area, also known as the “Quiet Side of the Smokies”, you may want to note that it's much easier getting in and out of the park, and is fairly close to Cades Cove. If you need a rental cabin during your visit, be sure to visit our Townsend Accommodations page .
Jeff
Hiking in the Smokies
Blog Stew, Listed with Sotheby's
¶ Want to buy a southern Colorado ghost town? It has been mostly restored, and it is a National Historic District too. Listed with Sotheby's real estate division, so not cheap.
¶ Wolverines will not get federal protection in Colorado as a "threatened" species. The pro-protection argument was based on projected climate change.
¶ This sounds like something from the Daily Mail — but can the Lone Star Tick force you to become a vegetarian (or at least a piscavore)?
¶ Wolverines will not get federal protection in Colorado as a "threatened" species. The pro-protection argument was based on projected climate change.
¶ This sounds like something from the Daily Mail — but can the Lone Star Tick force you to become a vegetarian (or at least a piscavore)?
Seratella ignita
Serratella ignita est sans doute l'Ephémère pourvue de deux cerques, parfois trois, la plus connue des pêcheurs à la ligne qui s'en servent comme appât à la belle saison ou fabriquent des mouches à l'identique sous le nom de "Olive à ailes bleues". Serratella ignita La larve de cet insecte appartenant à l'ordre des Héphéméroptères, famille des Ephemerellidae vit, comme celle des
Time to Make Plans for Your Fall Hiking trip to the Smokies
If you do plan to visit the Smokies this fall - or even during the upcoming Holiday Season - please take a few moments to check out our Accomodations Listings for a wide variety of lodging options in Gatlinburg, Townsend, Pigeon Forge and the North Carolina side of the Smokies.
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As always, thank you very much!
Jeff
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Youth Conservation Corps Completes Trail Work in Big South Fork
Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area announced yesterday that high school students from Tennessee and Kentucky have recently completed volunteer work while working with one of two Youth Conservation Corps teams.
Eight high school students from Fentress and Scott counties in Tennessee, as well as eight students from McCreary County, spent the summer working on a number of projects, which included more than 20 miles of trail rehabilitation, clearing brush from the area around an old Civilian Conservation Corps cabin, repairing retaining walls and steps, cleaning up picnic areas, and repainting numerous park directional signs. Their work also focused on rehabilitating sections of the popular Yahoo Falls Trail.
The Youth Conservation Corps is a summer employment program for young men and women, ages 15 through18, to work on projects to protect public lands. The Youth Conservation Corps program is one that trains young people and provides outdoor work that is supervised by a trained crew leader. Participants gain valuable professional experience working on National Park Service lands, and get to learn how to use tools, safe work habits, team work, and how conservation projects benefit the environment, and protect cultural and historical resources.
For further information about this program and its accomplishments, please call Dave Carney at (423) 569-9778.
Jeff
Hiking in the Smokies
Eight high school students from Fentress and Scott counties in Tennessee, as well as eight students from McCreary County, spent the summer working on a number of projects, which included more than 20 miles of trail rehabilitation, clearing brush from the area around an old Civilian Conservation Corps cabin, repairing retaining walls and steps, cleaning up picnic areas, and repainting numerous park directional signs. Their work also focused on rehabilitating sections of the popular Yahoo Falls Trail.
The Youth Conservation Corps is a summer employment program for young men and women, ages 15 through18, to work on projects to protect public lands. The Youth Conservation Corps program is one that trains young people and provides outdoor work that is supervised by a trained crew leader. Participants gain valuable professional experience working on National Park Service lands, and get to learn how to use tools, safe work habits, team work, and how conservation projects benefit the environment, and protect cultural and historical resources.
For further information about this program and its accomplishments, please call Dave Carney at (423) 569-9778.
Jeff
Hiking in the Smokies
Programming Note: Friends Across the Mountains Telethon is Thursday Night
This Thursday, August 14th, is the 20th annual Friends Across the Mountains Telethon. The event will be broadcast on WBIR-TV Channel 10 in Knoxville, TN and WLOS-TV Channel 13 in Asheville, NC from 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM.
The broadcast will highlight projects and programs that Friends of the Smokies has funded over the years. It's a fun event that raises awareness of both the Park's needs (as the only major national park without an entrance fee), and the ways that Friends of the Smokies helps to fulfill some of those needs every year. The telethon raises roughly $200,000 each year, and has raised over $2.9 million dollars in total over the last 19 year.
Volunteers will be on hand to help answer phones and keep running totals of the money raised throughout the evening.
If you wish, you can make a donation right now by clicking here .
Jeff
Hiking in the Smokies
Volunteers will be on hand to help answer phones and keep running totals of the money raised throughout the evening.
If you wish, you can make a donation right now by clicking here .
Jeff
Hiking in the Smokies
Sheep Mountain Wearing a Hat
Sheet Mountain in western Huerfano County under an uncommon cap of cloud, post-thunderstorm. It and its neighbor, Little Sheep Mountain, are known for their carbon dioxide field. There is a jokey title in there somewhere.
Episyrphus balteaus, le Syrphe ceinturé
Le Syrphe ceinturé, Episyrphus balteatus, est une petite mouche d'environ 1 cm dont la robe imite à merveille, comme bon nombre de ses congénères, celle de la guêpe. Syrphe ceinturé Episyrphus balteatus C'est un précieux auxiliaire de l'agriculture qu'il convient de préserver car ses larves dévorent les pucerons.
Platystoma seminationis
De petite taille, environ 5 mm, Platystoma seminationis n'est pas franchement une beauté mais pas non plus un laideron pour qui s'intéresse un peu à l'entomologie et à sa diversité. Platystoma seminationis Avec son thorax noir aux reflets jaunes d'or et ses ailes grises ornées de taches plus claires, cette petite mouche originale et plutôt trapue aux moeurs saprophages (c'est à dire se
TN Governor Awards $1.2 Million in Recreational Trails Program Grants
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation Commissioner Bob Martineau announced over $1.2 million in Recreational Trails Program grants to recipients across Tennessee yesterday.
The Recreational Trails Program is a federally funded program established to distribute funding for diverse recreation trail projects. The funds are available to federal, state and local government agencies, as well as nonprofit organizations that have obtained IRS 501 (c)(3) status and have a written trail management agreement with the agency that owns the property where the trail project is located.
Recreational Trails Program grants may be used for non-routine maintenance and restoration of existing trails, development and rehabilitation, trailside or trailhead facilities such as restrooms, kiosks and parking lots, construction of new trails and land acquisition for recreational trails or corridors.
Included in the awards announced yesterday was a $200,000 grant to the Tellico District of the Cherokee National Forest to develop trails, four trailhead parking areas, trail signs, and a trail bridge.
Grant recipients were selected through a scoring process with careful consideration given to the projects that met the selection criteria and expressed the greatest local recreational need.
A complete list of the grants can be found here .
Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com
The Recreational Trails Program is a federally funded program established to distribute funding for diverse recreation trail projects. The funds are available to federal, state and local government agencies, as well as nonprofit organizations that have obtained IRS 501 (c)(3) status and have a written trail management agreement with the agency that owns the property where the trail project is located.
Recreational Trails Program grants may be used for non-routine maintenance and restoration of existing trails, development and rehabilitation, trailside or trailhead facilities such as restrooms, kiosks and parking lots, construction of new trails and land acquisition for recreational trails or corridors.
Included in the awards announced yesterday was a $200,000 grant to the Tellico District of the Cherokee National Forest to develop trails, four trailhead parking areas, trail signs, and a trail bridge.
Grant recipients were selected through a scoring process with careful consideration given to the projects that met the selection criteria and expressed the greatest local recreational need.
A complete list of the grants can be found here .
Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com
Anthidium sp.
Difficile d'aller plus loin que le genre dans l'identification de cet Anthidium sp. appartenant à la famille des Megachilidae, une abeille solitaire également cataloguée abeille maçonne pour son habitude de construction d'un nid. Anthidium sp.
Smokey is 70, How Old is Lassie?
A week ago we stopped in at "the lodge," the first time in years.
Despite the merely average food (heavy on burgers and burritos) and watery coffee, it hits an emotional place for both M. and me.
Creaky, uneven wooden floors, knotty-pine paneling — for her it echoes similar establishments in the Vermont of her childhood, for me it is the same, only with memories of the Black Hills or little Colorado mountain resorts like Platoro or some place up in the Poudre River canyon.
Near our booth in the dining room was this shrine to Smokey Bear, demigod of the forest. He — as a hand-drawn bear — turns 70 this weekend.
Some facts from the AP story:
WHAT'S IN A NAME: Most people know the finger-pointing fire-safety fanatic as Smokey THE Bear, but in fact there is no "the" in the original name. In 1952, Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins wrote a song [link to video] in his honor and added a "the" between "Smokey" and "Bear" to keep the rhythm flowing.
THE "REAL" SMOKEY: Smokey Bear's nascent ad campaign got a boost in 1950 when a real bear cub that had been rescued from a New Mexico wildfire was nursed back to health and sent to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., as the living Smokey [1950–1976].
THE VOICE: Actor Sam Elliott, known for playing the bowling alley-narrator in The Big Lebowski and supporting roles in movies like Up in the Air and Mask, has served as the latest voice for Smokey. Both share the same "birthday." Elliott, the son of a Fish and Wildlife official, also turns 70 on Saturday.
But what about Lassie?
| The same photo as at the lodge. |
There next to Smokey's left paw was a photo of Lassie the television collie dog. I wondered about that.
It turns out that after the 1940s movies and the 1950s television series where Lassie (played by various related male dogs) lived on a farm and helped Timmie out of difficulties,
she was handed over for the 1964–1970 seasons to U.S. Forest Service employee "Corey Stuart," a plot change that resulted in "a steady decline in ratings."
I looked on YouTube and found some of those episodes — dubbed in German. In the one I sampled, Lassie and Stuart (who is wearing a hard hat although there is not a tree in sight) are riding in a pickup in what looks to be the Mojave Desert.
Maybe he should have been Corey Stuart of the Bureau of Land Management. The BLM never had a proper mascot.
Happy Birthday Smokey Bear!
Tomorrow marks the 70th birthday of one of the most recognizable characters in American history. On August 9, 1944, the Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention Campaign published the very first Smokey Bear poster (photo below).
The Ad campaign came about as a result of World War II. Thinking that wildfires could be used as a weapon, the Japanese military in 1942 began making attempts at starting wildfires along the coastal forests of southwest Oregon. Between November of 1944 and April of 1945 the Japanese began a campaign of launching more than 9000 "fusen bakudan", or fire balloons, into the jet stream. The balloons were equipped with a 15 kilogram antipersonnel bomb and two incendiary devices, which were designed to explode upon impact. It's estimated that 300 to 1000 of the balloons made it to the United States, including as far inland as Iowa and Michigan.
Fortunately the strategy had very little impact, though six people were tragically killed. On May 5, 1945, a teacher and her school children were on an outing near Lakeview, Oregon when they found one of the balloons in the woods. While dragging it out of the forest the bomb exploded and killed the teacher, Elsie Mitchell, as well as five of the children, all between the ages of 11 and 13.
Though not successful in starting any major wildfires, the potential for mass destruction was still present. Since most able-bodied men were serving in the military at that time, none could be spared to help fight forest fires. The goal of the Smokey Bear Ad campaign was to educate the public about the danger of forest fires in the hope that local communities would prevent them from being started. Although the message has changed, that campaign continues to this day.
According to a 2009 report by the Ad Council, Smokey Bear and his message are recognized by 95% of adults and 77% of children.
To help celebrate his 70th birthday, here's a video montage of Smokey Bear Ads throughout the years:
Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com
The Ad campaign came about as a result of World War II. Thinking that wildfires could be used as a weapon, the Japanese military in 1942 began making attempts at starting wildfires along the coastal forests of southwest Oregon. Between November of 1944 and April of 1945 the Japanese began a campaign of launching more than 9000 "fusen bakudan", or fire balloons, into the jet stream. The balloons were equipped with a 15 kilogram antipersonnel bomb and two incendiary devices, which were designed to explode upon impact. It's estimated that 300 to 1000 of the balloons made it to the United States, including as far inland as Iowa and Michigan.
Fortunately the strategy had very little impact, though six people were tragically killed. On May 5, 1945, a teacher and her school children were on an outing near Lakeview, Oregon when they found one of the balloons in the woods. While dragging it out of the forest the bomb exploded and killed the teacher, Elsie Mitchell, as well as five of the children, all between the ages of 11 and 13.
Though not successful in starting any major wildfires, the potential for mass destruction was still present. Since most able-bodied men were serving in the military at that time, none could be spared to help fight forest fires. The goal of the Smokey Bear Ad campaign was to educate the public about the danger of forest fires in the hope that local communities would prevent them from being started. Although the message has changed, that campaign continues to this day.
According to a 2009 report by the Ad Council, Smokey Bear and his message are recognized by 95% of adults and 77% of children.
To help celebrate his 70th birthday, here's a video montage of Smokey Bear Ads throughout the years:
Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com
Coenagrion puella, l'Agrion jouvencelle
L'Agrion jouvencelle (Coenagrion puella) est sans doute l'une des plus répandues de nos demoiselles. Reconnaissable au dessin noir en forme de U qu'il porte sur le second segment il ne passe cependant pas inaperçu au bord des mares et des eaux stagnantes avec sa couleur bleue intense. Agrion jouvencelle Coenagrion puella
Leave Your Firewood at Home!
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is asking all visitors to leave their firewood at home. Here's why:
Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com
Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com
"Where the Arkansas Begins"
Our watershed has a song! Performance by Devin James Fry for the bees in Austin, Texas.
Tip of the big-brimmed hat to Kenny Paul at Pour House Coffee Roasters in Florence.
Nantahala Outdoor Center To Host 2014 Whitewater Junior Olympics
Whitewater paddlers ages 18 and under will converge on the Nantahala River for three exciting days of paddling and racing August 9 – 11. Hosted by Nantahala Racing Club (NRC), the non-profit partner of Nantahala Outdoor Center (NOC), the event features competitions in all three whitewater disciplines (freestyle, slalom and downriver). The elite athletes participating in the Junior Olympics will be aspiring to the junior national team with trials being held in September in Washington DC. For these athletes, the event is an opportunity to practice racing under pressure, to explore other disciplines, and to expand upon what they have already achieved. Some of these promising young competitors may one day grace the Olympic podium.
An all-inclusive experience, the Junior Olympics is the largest event being hosted by NRC this year, with children gathering together from across the United States. It will include a fun Ducky Cross through the 2013 Wave, a Stand up Paddle Giant Slalom, and off-the-water community events such as a run and other social activities to encourage camaraderie among participants, families and the broader community.
While NOC offers daily a wide-range of activities such as rafting, kayaking, zip lining, hiking, stand-up paddling, and much more, the organization also partners with NRC to involve young paddlers in casual weekend paddling sessions run by professional instructors and coaches, whitewater races and clinics, and high-level competitions. All activities support the mission to get youth outdoors, promote healthy alternatives for children, and engage families in outdoor recreation.
The Junior Olympics is the ideal setting to achieve this mission. Kids meet other outdoor-oriented youth who are inspired by whitewater; they build lasting relationships with peers who have similar interests and goals; and they become part of the movement to broaden the sport of whitewater. Fourteen year-old Miller Kaderabek of Fairview, North Carolina, is competing this year and shares his thoughts on training and even making his own boat:
The 2014 Whitewater Junior Olympics is sponsored by USA Canoe/Kayak, a member of the United States Olympic Committee. The registration fee is $40.
For the detailed event schedule and more information, please click here .
Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com
An all-inclusive experience, the Junior Olympics is the largest event being hosted by NRC this year, with children gathering together from across the United States. It will include a fun Ducky Cross through the 2013 Wave, a Stand up Paddle Giant Slalom, and off-the-water community events such as a run and other social activities to encourage camaraderie among participants, families and the broader community.
While NOC offers daily a wide-range of activities such as rafting, kayaking, zip lining, hiking, stand-up paddling, and much more, the organization also partners with NRC to involve young paddlers in casual weekend paddling sessions run by professional instructors and coaches, whitewater races and clinics, and high-level competitions. All activities support the mission to get youth outdoors, promote healthy alternatives for children, and engage families in outdoor recreation.
The Junior Olympics is the ideal setting to achieve this mission. Kids meet other outdoor-oriented youth who are inspired by whitewater; they build lasting relationships with peers who have similar interests and goals; and they become part of the movement to broaden the sport of whitewater. Fourteen year-old Miller Kaderabek of Fairview, North Carolina, is competing this year and shares his thoughts on training and even making his own boat:
The 2014 Whitewater Junior Olympics is sponsored by USA Canoe/Kayak, a member of the United States Olympic Committee. The registration fee is $40.
For the detailed event schedule and more information, please click here .
Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com
Walking in the Wets
I apologize to everyone whose email I did not answer or whose editing job I am behind schedule on, but yesterday despite (because of?) the rainy week, I just had to get out of this house. So M., the dog, and I took a walk in the rainy forest and found some mushrooms, some to admire and some to eat.
The Wet Mountains were living up to their name. All the pores of the forest were open. That is Lake Isabel down below.
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