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Biosphere Reserve Information Overview

Southern Appalachian

The Great Smokey Mountain are named for the misty 'smoke' that often hangs over the mountains.

Location:     35° to 36°N, 83° to 84°W

Elevation:    226 -2,025 m above sea level

 

 

  Contact address Robert S. Turner
Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB)
314 UT Conference Center Building
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-4138 
United States of America
  Telephone (1)(865) 974-4585
  Fax (1)(865) 974-4609
  email rsturner@utk.edu

Text Box: Administrative authorities Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere Cooperative (SAMAB) Major Ecosystem Type Temperate broad-leaf forest Year Designed 1988

At 5,964 feet, Grandfather Mountain is the highest peak in the Blue Ridge range. Visible 40 miles south across the clouds is Mt. Mitchell, elv. 6,684, highest peak in Eastern America. Early explorers thought Grandfather was the taller of the two because it rises so abruptly from the valley floor, falling off more than 3,000 feet to the Catawba River basin in the East. The extreme change in elevation makes Grandfather home to 16 distinct ecological communities in less than 5,000 acres and habitat for at least 66 rare and endangered species.

Related links...

Coweeta LTER Home Page
Grandfather Mountain
Great Smoky Mountains National Park (National Park Service)
Great Smoky Mountains National Park - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Mount Mitchell State Park
Oak Ridge National Environmental Research Park
Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring Site
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Tennessee River Gorge Biosphere Reserve

Last updated: 08/11/2005

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