Park visits up in July

Great Smoky Mountains National Park recorded 1,402,790 visitors during July 2012. This is a 4.5 percent increase in visitation as compared with July 2011. Year-to-date visitation in 2012 is up by 9.6 percent, which works out to 471,066 more people than during the same...

WCU professor wins grant for Parks study

CULLOWHEE – Diane M. Styers, assistant professor of geosciences and natural resources at Western Carolina University, won nearly $15,000 in funding for a project that involves analyzing how land use affects national parks. The U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest...