From the purple dwarf crested iris to the elusive yellow lady’s slipper, over 1,500 flowering plant species are blossoming at ...

Plant Sale will be 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at the Nanci Weldon Memorial Gym.   For sale will be a few thousand ...

They remove hazard trees, manage invasive exotic plants, plant trees where damage ... Park Commission took up the charge for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Asheville Citizen and ...

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 ...

GATLINBURG, TENNESSEE — As spring begins, Great Smoky Mountains National Park reminds visitors of group size limits during the popular wildflower season at Whiteoak Sink. Individuals and small ...

In 2013, the Tennessee Valley Authority began cleaning up and shutting down many of its outdated coal plants, resulting in measurably better air quality at Great Smoky Mountains. NPCA and other ...

Experts estimate that a mandatory phase-out of older coal-fired plants would alleviate 70 percent of sulphur dioxide emissions in the Great Smoky Mountains—the pollutant primarily responsible for the ...