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Photo by Geo. Masa clixgman's dome, (elevation 6642 feet) highest peak in the smokies Copyrighted Material Western Carolina University . Hunter Library The Trees of the Smokies A MILLION square miles of virgin forest was America's heritage. Practically all that remains is the Woodland of the Great Smoky Mountains. Trees in this region are hundreds of years old, one writer saying of them, "many of these trees were full grown when Columbus was a babe in arms." The forests in which they thrive date from unknown ages. There are 152 species of trees in the Great Smokies, and Dr. William Treleese, dean of the department of botany at the University of Illinois, says: "At the foot of Mount LeConte are trees indigenous to southern Tennessee. At its top are trees indigenous to southern Canada. More kinds of trees can be found during a trip of thirty miles through the Smokies than can be found in traveling diagonally across Europe." Unlike many of the western mountains with their steep, bare, craggy cliffs, the Smokies are practically covered with some form of tree growth, the remarkable exception being what is known as "balds" on some of the highest knobs or points, which are covered with grass. The forest cover is composed largely of hardwoods, the remainder being softwoods. The hardwoods include many species, chief of which are poplar, red oak, white oak, black oak, chestnut, bass- wood, birch, cherry, sugar maple and beech. The softwoods consist of white pine, shortleaf yellow pine, hemlock, spruce, fir, Virginia scrub pine and pitchpine. The hardwoods here mentioned are quite similar to those growing in the New England states and in the North Central states, but in the Smokies they grow more rapidly. The black and yellow birch, both of which are distinct Northern species, occur quite abundantly on the upper altitudes of the Great Smoky Mountains. While some sections of the Park include land from which timber has been cut, there are thousands of acres of virgin forest, where the towering poplars and other kinds of trees attain to unusual size and height and lend beauty and magnificence to the entire area.
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“The Great Smoky Mountains National Park” is a 32-page booklet produced by the Great Smoky Mountains Publishing Company, Inc. and edited by R. R. Stripling. The booklet contains many photographs by the Thompson Brothers of Knoxville, Tennessee. Published in 1930, the booklet was written before the establishment of the national park and promotes both the park and the city of Knoxville as “The Great Smoky Mountains City.” While many brochures feature photographs by James E. (Jim) Thompson (1880-1976), this booklet also includes images by his brother, Robin Thompson (1895-1977). Essays describe the geography, trees, and wildflowers of the Smokies. While the park lies almost equally in North Carolina and Tennessee, this brochure refers only to the Tennessee side of the park.
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