Great Smokey Mountains in Tennessee and North Carolina

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Great Smokey Mountains inTennessee and North
Carolina

• By Sydney

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Geographic Features
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• Dog wood trees
• Spruce-fir forest
• Mountains like Mont le Conte
• Helm lock forest

This way to plants and animals
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Plants and animals

• Some animals in my park include
• .black bears
• .fox squirrels
• .white tail deer
• .elks
• .bobcat
• .brook trout

This is a dogwood flower in my park it blossoms
in the late spring rain.
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Issues facing the park
.Air pollution .power plants and
industries .choke off view and Poison
plants .foul the water
This is a picture of my park. It has been
invaded by balsam woolly adelgid insects .
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History

• People have lived in the mountains since the cave
  men
• The Cherokee Indians were moved in 1830 to
  Oklahoma
• The president then was Franklin.D.Roosevelt the
  32nd president
• The Great Smokies was founded in 1934

• Settlers first arrived in the 1700's
• Charles. A.Webb, Jim Thompson, Mark Squires, Ben
  Mortor,George Masa Horace Hephart, Paul Fink, Ann
  Davis, and David Chapman.

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Activities

• Historic buildings
• Horseback riding
• Picnicking
• Water falls viewing

• Auto touring
• Bicycling
• Camping
• Fishing
• Hiking
• Wild life viewing

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Conclusion

• This is why my park, Great Smoky Mountain, should
  be preserved. The first reason is for its natural
  beauty and all the plants and animals in it.
  Also, is should be preserved because of all the
  great activities in my park. That is why it
  should be preserved.

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Sources nps.org. National Geographic books Google