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Campbell, Hutson, and Sharp's Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers
Author | : Robert W. Hutson |
Publisher | : Windy Pines Pub |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1996-04 |
Genre | : Wild flowers |
ISBN | : 9780964341739 |
Wildflowers and Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont
Author | : Timothy P. Spira |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 541 |
Release | : 2011-05-16 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0807877654 |
This richly illustrated field guide serves as an introduction to the wildflowers and plant communities of the southern Appalachians and the rolling hills of the adjoining piedmont. Rather than organizing plants, including trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, by flower color or family characteristics, as is done in most guidebooks, botanist Tim Spira takes a holistic, ecological approach that enables the reader to identify and learn about plants in their natural communities. This approach, says Spira, better reflects the natural world, as plants, like other organisms, don't live in isolation; they coexist and interact in myriad ways. Full-color photo keys allow the reader to rapidly preview plants found within each of the 21 major plant communities described, and the illustrated species description for each of the 340 featured plants includes fascinating information about the ecology and natural history of each plant in its larger environment. With this new format, readers can see how the mountain and piedmont landscapes form a mosaic of plant communities that harbor particular groups of plants. The volume also includes a glossary, illustrations of plant structures, and descriptions of sites to visit. Whether you're a beginning naturalist or an expert botanist, this guidebook is a useful companion on field excursions and wildflower walks, as well as a valuable reference. Southern Gateways Guide is a registered trademark of the University of North Carolina Press
Birth of a National Park in the Great Smoky Mountains
Author | : Carlos C. Campbell |
Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780870498152 |
Annually millions of people admire the Great Smoky Mountains National Park's primeval beauty - towering peaks, sparkling cascades, virgin forests, and remarkable variety of wildflowers and shrubs. One of the nation's most popular national parks did not just "come to be" a logical and natural development on federally-owned land. Instead, it was the first national park to be acquired from private owners and given by the people to the federal government. Establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park climaxed an unprecedented crusade that is a story of almost fanatic dedication to a cause, as well as one of frustration, despair, political bias, and even physical violence.
Wildflowers of Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains
Author | : Leonard Adkins |
Publisher | : Menasha Ridge Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2011-06-15 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0897328779 |
Using full-color photography and expertly crafted prose, Wildflowers of the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains turns a day hike or drive through our nation's most beautiful and rugged expanse of forested mountains into an object lesson in the stunning beauty of nature.
Favorite Wildflower Walks in Georgia
Author | : Hugh O. Nourse |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780820328416 |
Wildflower lovers across Georgia know Hugh and Carol Nourse through their popular slide lectures. Countless other enthusiasts have seen their glorious wildflower photographs in books and magazines. Here the Nourses draw on years of travel around the state to share their favorite places for seeing wildflowers. Of the many walks the Nourses have taken, these are the ones they return to most often because of the density or the unusual nature of the floral display. All twenty of these wildflower walks are on public land; everything you need to know about how to find them and what to do once you're there is included. Five walks are presented from each of Georgia's four geographic regions: Cumberland Plateau/Ridge and Valley (northwestern Georgia); Blue Ridge (northeastern Georgia); Piedmont (Georgia foothills and fall line); and Coastal Plain (all of Georgia below the fall line). For each walk, a scenic photo gives a hint of the locale's overall character. In addition, five of the wildflowers encountered on the walk are profiled with a photograph and a detailed description. All of the wildflowers on these walks are native to Georgia. A few are rare and endangered. Common plant names are used in the main text; the index lists both common and scientific names. Coverage of each walk includes directions and a trail map plus information about: flowering season peak flowering period flower habitats walk length and difficulty restroom availability applicable fees
Mountain Days
Author | : Paul M. Fink |
Publisher | : Western Carolina University, Hunter Library |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2019-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781469651842 |
In 1974, Paul M. Fink published Backpacking Was the Only Way, a memoir of exploration in the Smoky Mountain backcountry that is long out of print. The basis of the book was a journal kept from 1914 to 1938, combined with evocative photographs that Fink compiled into a manuscript he called Mountain Days. The manuscript is now considered to be a unique and insightful first-person account of the region. Containing rare historical accounts of the manways, camps, and cabins once used by adventurers exploring the mountains before the advent of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, this is the first widely-accessible publication of Mountain Days. This edition features a new foreword by Ken Wise, professor and director of the Great Smoky Mountain Regional Project at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville's John C. Hodges Library. An open access edition of Mountains Days is available from the Hunter Library at Western Carolina University.
Rocky Mountain Flower Finder
Author | : Janet L. Wingate |
Publisher | : Nature Study Guild Publishers |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780912550206 |
Pocket field guide to wildflowers of the Rockies, from foothills to tree line. As with all our flower guides, the step-by-step key guides you first to the flower family and then to the name of the individual species. Includes information about habitat and range, and a glossary of terms used to describe flowers and leaves. Author's line drawings clearly reveal important features for accurate identification.
Hiking Trails of the Smokies
Author | : Don DeFoe |
Publisher | : Great Smoky Mountains Association |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : |
Map has titles: Great Smoky Mountains trail map; Great Smoky Mountains hiking map.
A Walk in the Woods
Author | : Bill Bryson |
Publisher | : Anchor Canada |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2012-05-15 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0385674546 |
God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath—The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey. An instant classic, riotously funny, A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.