A Natural History Guide To Great Smoky Mountains National Park.A Natural History Guide To Great Smoky Mountains National Park Great Smoky Mountains National Park National preserve, eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, U.S. It is 20 mi (32 km) wide and extends southwest for 54 mi (87 km) from the Pigeon River to the Little Tennessee River. Established in 1934 to preserve the U.S. Donald W. Linzey The University of Tennessee Press The University of Tennessee Press (or UT Press), founded in 1940, is a university press that is part of the University of Tennessee. External link
293 Communications Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-0325 9781572336124, $22.00, www.utpress.org, 1-800-621-2736 One of the country's loveliest protected wildlife and wilderness preserves, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is located in the southern Appalachian Mountains Appalachian Mountains (ăpəlā`chən, –chēən, –lăch`–), mountain system of E North America, extending in a broad belt c.1,600 mi (2,570 km) SW from the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec prov. of Tennessee and North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. . It is a prized travel destination and provides habitat to more than 100,000 species of plants and animals. "A Natural History Guide To Great Smoky Mountains National Park" by wildlife biologist ''' The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. A wildlife biologist is someone who studies wild animals and their habitats. and ecologist Donald W. Linzey (Professor of Biology at Wytheville community College Wytheville Community College is a two-year college located in Wytheville, Virginia. One of the 23 schools in the Virginia Community College System, the college opened in 1963, and serves residents of Bland, Carroll, Grayson, parts of Smyth, and Wythe counties, and the City of Galax. , Wytheville, Virginia) is a superbly illustrated 292-page compendium of information providing readers with a history and environmental survey of what this national park has to offer. Drawing upon his more than fifty years of experience and expertise as a naturalist dedicated to every aspect of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Professor Linzey provides eleven tables ranging from such issues as the park's geological time line, to new species recorded in the park from 2000-2007, to bird-banding from Tremont and Purchase Knob. An informed and informative text comprehensively covering the park's flora and fauna is enhanced with the inclusion of a wealth of full color photography. With the inclusion of four appendices, extensive Notes, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index, "A Natural History Guide To Great Smoky Mountains National Park" is a work of seminal scholarship and highly recommended for professional and academic library reference collections, as well as the non-specialist general reader with an interest in visiting the Great Smoky Mountains national park. |
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