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Park Superintendent Cash takes home top award for leadership at national Public Lands Alliance awards ceremony - The Cherokee One Feather

Park Superintendent Cash takes home top award for leadership at national Public Lands Alliance awards ceremony - The Cherokee One Feather
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Word from the Smokies: Synchronous fireflies light up the night

In 2019, the spectacle attracted more than 28,000 people from all 50 U.S states and 19 countries to enter the lottery.

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Searching for safe passage: Group works for safer wildlife crossings on I-40

A mother bear and her cubs make a dangerous journey across Interstate 40. Susan Detwiler photo Growing up in eastern Kentucky, Frances Figart loved any chance to glimpse the diverse wildlife species roaming those Appalachian foothills except when the sightings occurred after the creatures had become roadkill, something that occurred all too frequently. She felt their deaths keenly. “I can remember when I was a young driver running over a snake once, and I was so upset by that one individual death that I just turned around and went home and didn’t go to my job,” she said. “I called in sick and I just really took it personally.”

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Word from the Smokies: New book teaches youths about need for wildlife crossings

Word from the Smokies: New book teaches youths about need for wildlife crossings Frances Figart, Word from the Smokies © Courtesy of Great Smoky Mountains Association A Search for Safe Passage” by Frances Figart is published by Great Smoky Mountains Association. It can be purchased in park bookstores and at smokiesinformation.org. When I started working at Great Smoky Mountains Association in 2017, I figured I would write a book at some point in my tenure. But I never dreamed I would become the author of a children’s book. The impetus for it goes back to my own childhood, which was idyllic. I grew up in Eastern Kentucky at a summer camp for which my parents acted as overseers. I spent summer days swimming, canoeing, hiking, and horseback riding, immersing myself in a landscape of Appalachian wildlife. The only sadness I recall was seeing animals hit and killed on roads.

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Effort underway for wildlife overpasses on I-40 in the Pigeon River Gorge

After years of research, the I-40 Pigeon River Gorge Wildlife Crossing Project was launched by the Safe Passage Fund Coalition last week.

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