NPS photo.

NPS Fisheries Managers work in streams to restore native brook trout.

Welcome to Great Smoky Mountains National Park Resource Management & Science!

Ever wonder what it's like to work in a National Park? Catch a bear? Track fish? Find out with “Dispatches From the Field,” a bi-monthly source of information from scientists, resource managers, and Park partners.

Click on issues below to see science, research, and resource management projects firsthand, and to find information about volunteering and educational opportunities.

Dispatches from the Field

• Issue 1: Grasslands & Forests
• Issue 2: The Adelgid & What it Means for Hemlocks & Streams             (watch the Podcast)
• Issue 3: The Wild(life) Side of the Smokies
• Issue 4: Fish and the health of Smoky Mountain streams
• Issue 5: Air & Sky of the Smokies
• Issue 6: Cultural Resources & Archeology (Podcast & issue coming in December) 

Search Dispatches by science topic...

Check Current Research Permits in the Smokies (updated August, 2009)

Visit the Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center to learn more about how you can be involved in Park research & science!