Partners in the Park. May 19 26, Being uncomfortable is inevitable; misery is optional.

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1 Partners in the Park May 19 26, 2017 Being uncomfortable is inevitable; misery is optional.

2 Faculty Bill Atwill, PhD Associate Professor Department of English University of North Carolina Wilmington Sue Ann Cody Recovering Librarian University of North Carolina Wilmington Christina M. McIntyre, MS Director of Major Scholarships, Honors College, Virginia Tech Co-chair NCHC Partners in the Parks committee Mark Peach, PhD Professor of History Southern Adventist University

3 Partners Phyllis Henry Smoky Mountain Hiking Club Leanna Joyner Appalachian Trail Conservancy Rob Klein NPS, Fire Ecologist Baird Todd NPS, Museum Curator Janet Rock NPS, Botanist Sheridan Roberts NPS, Volunteer Coordinator Dana Soehn NPS, Management Assistant/Public Affairs Paul Super NPS, Science Coordinator, Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center Julia Townsend Education Project Coordinator Seeking Paths in Nature

4 12 students 9 universities Clare Grace Parker Addie Zoe Meghan Michael JW Rachel Danny Emmalee

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7 Asheville, NC Smokemont campground Blue Ridge Parkway Citizen Scientist Project Land Snails & Millipede Transect

8 Newfound Gap Planned a day of trail maintenance. Weather high 40 o F; heavy rain Learning about cooperative management of the Appalachian Trail Phyllis Henry, Smoky Mountain Hiking Club Leanna Joyner, Program Director, Volunteer Relations, Appalachian Trail Conservancy. Evan Supernova I consume anything that gets near me Kirk Shuttling A.T. thru-hikers to Gatlinburg

9 Museum of the Cherokee Indian Learning about the original peoples of these lands People of One Fire The Cherokee today: Eastern Band of Cherokee ~15,000 The Cherokee Nation ~300,000 people United Keetoowah Band ~ 15,000 people To perpetuate the history, culture and stories of the Cherokee people.

10 Sunrise at Clingman s Dome

11 Twin Creeks Science Center Paul Super, Research coordinator, biologist Learning about our Citizen Scientist Project Blue Ridge Parkway Transect Millipedes & Land snails Rob Klein, Fire ecologist Learning about the Chimney Tops Fire of 2016 and the recovery of the forest. Baird Todd,

12 Twin Creeks Science Center Learning about research in the Park Baird Todd, archive curator Janet Rock, park botanist Park Headquarters Learning about Park management Clayton Jordan, Deputy Superintendent Dana Soehn, Public Affairs

13 Jessica Townsend, Education Project Coordinator, Seeking Paths in Nature The goals of Seeking Paths in Nature are to: Develop curriculum units for use by Cherokee Central Schools and surrounding school systems. Integrate Cherokee culture and history into all curriculum units. Conduct in-park and in-classroom programs at various grade levels, with a primary focus on grades 6, 7, and 8, throughout the year. 58 / 5 Funded in part by a grant from the Cherokee Preservation Foundation, Seeking Paths in Nature (SPiN) is an educational partnership between Cherokee Central Schools in Cherokee, NC and Great Smoky Mountains National Park, adjacent to the school campus. This project aims to connect students to natural and cultural park resources in a hands-on way and instill stewardship for those resources while fostering emotional and intellectual connections to the park.

14 Deep Creek Living much out of doors, in the sun and wind, will no doubt produce a certain roughness of character will cause a thicker cuticle to grow over some of the finer qualities of our nature, as on the face and hands, or as severe manual labor robs the hands of some of their delicacy of touch. Henry David Thoreau

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16 Sheridan Roberts, Volunteer Coordinator Learning about the many aspects of volunteering in the Park and the Artist in Residence program 58 / 5 Smokemont Camp host Wayne (left) Not pictured: Hilda 2015 AIR D.J. Berard 2015 AIR Jill Kerttula

17 Whitewater rafting on the Nantahala River Nightly: fireside reflections

18 Last day the sun came out! Throughout the week we learned and were constantly reminded that the Great Smoky Mountains are a temperate rainforest.

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