Download Smokies K - Jefferson County Public Schools

Threats: Disease, Exotics,
Trees,& Facts
Threats to smokies
•Air pollution, acid
precipitation, exotic
species, apathy,
lack of funding.
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
Garlic mustard, Kudzu, Mimosa,
multiflora rose
Johnson grass, fescue, privet,
oriental bittersweet
Dogwood A, Beech scale insect
and fungus, Wild Hog
• 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.
American chestnut
Diseases
•Chestnut blight
fungus-killed
American chestnut.
•Dutch elm diseaseelm trees
Elm trees
• More conspicuous alien
species such as wild
hogs, rainbow trout, and
a host of invasive
vascular plants are also
damaging natural
systems.
Hemlock WA, Gypsy moth, Larvae
BWA
• These unwelcome pests
have already caused
major forest changes,
and they threaten to do
even more damage in
the immediate future.
• Several common forest
ecosystems are
threatened by non-native
insects and diseases
unintentionally imported
into north America
Tree identification (intro)
•Best identified by
leaves/needles, also
bark, shape, size.
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)
White Pine
Jack Pine
Loblolly
Parting facts
• Smokies highest peakClingman’s Dome 6,643ft
• Highest Appalachian peak- Mt.
Mitchell 6,683ft
• April is peak wildflower month!
Highest Elevation Campsite and
Shelter
• Mt. Sterling #38-5820ft
• Mt. Leconte Shelter-6440ft
Top ten peaks (elevation ft)
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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