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Threats: Disease, Exotics, Trees,& Facts
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Threats to smokies
•Air pollution, acid precipitation, exotic species, apathy, lack of funding.
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Invasive Exotic Species
• Plants 40 invasive/380 exotic- privet, mimosa, fescue and Johnson grass, Kudzu, tree of heaven, Japanese grass, multiflora rose, garlic mustard, oriental bittersweet, Japanese honeysuckle, musk thistle
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Garlic mustard, Kudzu, Mimosa, multiflora rose
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Johnson grass, fescue, privet, oriental bittersweet
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Dogwood A, Beech scale insect and fungus, Wild Hog
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• Destructive non-natives include the balsam woolly adelgid, dogwood anthracnose, Chinese chestnut blight, Dutch elm disease, beech bark disease, hemlock woolly adelgid, and the gypsy moth.
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American chestnut
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Diseases
•Chestnut blight fungus-killed American chestnut.
•Dutch elm disease-elm trees
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Elm trees
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• More conspicuous alien species such as wild hogs, rainbow trout, and a host of invasive vascular plants are also damaging natural systems.
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Hemlock WA, Gypsy moth, Larvae
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BWA
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• These unwelcome pests have already caused major forest changes, and they threaten to do even more damage in the immediate future.
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• Several common forest ecosystems are threatened by non-native insects and diseases unintentionally imported into north America
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Tree identification (intro)
•Best identified by leaves/needles, also bark, shape, size.
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Ex. Pine trees-needles in bunches
• Bundle of 5-white pine(3-5in needles)
• Bundle of 2-red pine(4-7in)
• Bundle of 2 jack pine(1in)
• Bundle of 3-loblolly pine(5-9in needles)
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White Pine
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Jack Pine
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Loblolly
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Parting facts
• Smokies highest peak- Clingman’s Dome 6,643ft
• Highest Appalachian peak- Mt. Mitchell 6,683ft
• April is peak wildflower month!
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Highest Elevation Campsite and Shelter
• Mt. Sterling #38-5820ft
• Mt. Leconte Shelter-6440ft
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Top ten peaks (elevation ft)• Clingmans dome- 6,643• Mount Guyot- 6,621• Mount Le Conte (high top)- 6,593• Mount Buckley- 6,580• Mount Love- 6,420• Mount Chapman- 6,417• Old Black- 6,370• Luftee Knob- 6,234• Mount Kephart- 6,217• Mount Collins- 6,118