Leave No Trace and The Smokies

The Great Smoky Mountains is the most popular National Park in the US. Visitors to these areas don't always know the best way to recreate responsibly in such a delicate
and fragile wilderness.

In this natural sound package that I produced for UNC-TV, we hear from Park Ranger KK Stewart, Visitors Bruce and Marilyn Robinson, Author Randy Johnson, and the Leave No Trace Traveling Trainers North Moench and Ella Goodbrod.

The Leave No Trace Center For Outdoor Ethics Recommends 7 principles to help visitors to parks and other outdoor areas do everything they can to preserve and protect these places.

-Plan Ahead and Prepare
-Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces
-Dispose of Waste -Properly
-Leave What You Find
-Minimize Campfire Impacts
-Respect Wildlife
-Be Considerate of Other Visitors


The Great Smoky Mtns National Park celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2009.
The Appalachian Mountains date back nearly 500 million years!

Thanks for watching!

For more info on Leave No Trace visit
lnt.org
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park website is
nps.gov/grsm

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[gary5058]

this land is your land,everyone stay home,then thay can lay off all the control freeks can go on uninployment.and atay off our land as i do.

[markp10311969]

There will be no trace in 1000 years.

[MadameGarnett]

....so when is this redneck attitude of keeping it all free and just letting it go going to change? All these vehicles going through here are ruining the place. I guarantee there would be less cars and exhaust if there were folk car pooling to get up there. My father owned 3 acres in the foothills in Walland, TN near the park and he often took us up to hike on his place where he sometimes cried at the dumping of old cars, tires, and trash on the pristine land. It really makes me sick.

[MadameGarnett]

What I don't understand is why so many motorists are allowed here into the park entrance. It's pathetic that we don't charge a fee per car and the head of the park insists on keeping it free. It makes me angry. Everywhere I turn in East Tn. people are careless with the environment worse than any other state in the country. You talk about educating the people at the head of the trails. Ha Ha what a laugh. It takes money to take care of a park and educate folks. I grew up here.