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Smoky Mountain Pileated Woodpeckers, America’s largest woodpecker, announces its arrival with a drum solo.
The Pileated Woodpecker’s drumming echoes across the Smokies and indeed the entire U.S. This largest woodpecker found in North America measures in at some 16-19 inches in length and features an impressive bill that is the same length as its head.
Continue reading…Horticulturists hope a new hybrid hemlock will prove resistant to the hemlock woolly adelgid which has decimated the broadleaf evergreens for more than 25 years.
The majestic trees, which serve as green sentinels in the Great Smoky Mountains punctuating the summer mountains scenery with dark green foliage and offering a welcome contrast to leafless trees in the winter, have been slowly dying in the mountains for 25 years.
Continue reading…Skywatchers are in for an early Christmas treat. The alignment of Saturn and Jupiter, popularly as the “Christmas Star,” is an especially vibrant planetary conjunction easily visible in the evening sky over the next two weeks as the bright planets come together, culminating on the night of Dec. 21, 2020.
Continue reading…A $1 million donation by Sevierville’s favorite daughter, Dolly Parton, was instrumental in assisting the development of the Moderna vaccine, which according to a company spokesperson appears to be 94.5’% effective. The vaccine was created, in part, by the donation that Parton pledged to Nashville’s Vanderbilt University Education Center in April.
Parton was quoted crediting her longtime friend, Dr. Najo Abumrad, who is involved in research at the prestigious university, with telling her about the exciting work going at the school. Motivated by the project, Parton tweeted in April,” I am making a donation of $1 million to Vanderbilt toward that research and encourage people that can afford it to make donations.”
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