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Black Lighting for “Bugs”

  • April 10, 2025
  • Will Kuhn
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Join us to help document nocturnal life in Great Smoky Mountains National Park! We will be setting up blacklight (UV lights) against sheets to attract moths, beetles and other flying insects and documenting our findings! We will also spend time at dusk using a bat detector to monitor for bat activity in the area!
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Firefly ‘Blitz

  • April 9, 2025
  • Will Kuhn
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Join us in Cades Cove for a Firefly Blitz in Cades Cove on Monday, June 23! We’ll be going out to the cove before dusk to record firefly activity to identify species.
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Fern Foray

  • March 4, 2025
  • Will Kuhn
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Join us for an exciting journey into the world of ferns in Great Smoky Mountains National Park! UTK Ecology and Evolutionary Biology lecturer and renowned botany expert, Dr. Pat Cox, will share her in-depth knowledge of the park’s diverse fern species.
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Pollinator ‘Blitz

  • February 26, 2025
  • Jaimie Matzko
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Join us to document pollinators and the host plants and wildflowers they are visiting! There is so much more to learn about pollinators and their vital role in the ecosystems of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. 
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Amphibian Monitoring

  • February 11, 2025
  • Jaimie Matzko
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Join us for our first volunteer event of the year on Saturday, March 1 from 4:30 to 8:30pm to survey amphibians in Cades Cove! We’ll be working with experts from the Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy (arcprotects.org), University of TN and Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont (gsmit.org) to document any frogs and salamanders we see, calls we hear and egg masses we find!
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