Sunset over the Smoky Mountains
by Rebecca Carr
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Sunset over the Smoky Mountains
Artist
Rebecca Carr
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Photograph - Photography
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On the Blue Ridge Parkway through the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, I was frequently amazed at the breathtaking sights of the many layers of mountains and forests in America's most visited national park. According to Wikipedia, "[t]he Great Smoky Mountains are a mountain range rising along the Tennessee–North Carolina border in the southeastern United States. They are a subrange of the Appalachian Mountains . . . The Great Smokies are best known as the home of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which protects most of the range. The park was established in 1934. . . The range is home to an estimated 187,000 acres (76,000 ha) of old growth forest, constituting the largest such stand east of the Mississippi River. The cove hardwood forests in the range's lower elevations are among the most diverse ecosystems in North America, and the Southern Appalachian spruce-fir forest that coats the range's upper elevations is the largest of its kind. . . The name "Smoky" comes from the natural fog that often hangs over the range and presents as large smoke plumes from a distance. This fog is caused by the vegetation exhaling volatile organic compounds, chemicals that have a high vapor pressure and easily form vapors at normal temperature and pressure. . .The Great Smoky Mountains stretch from the Pigeon River in the northeast to the Little Tennessee River to the southeast. The northwestern half of the range gives way to a series of elongate ridges known as the "Foothills," the outermost of which include Chilhowee Mountain and English Mountain. The range is roughly bounded on the south by the Tuskegee River and to the southeast by Soco Creek and Jonathan Creek. The Great Smokies comprise parts of Blount County, Sevier County, and Cocke County in Tennessee and Swain County and Haywood County in North Carolina."
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August 6th, 2019
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