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Celebrate the diversity of the Smokies

The public is invited to mingle with researchers from around the world March 19-21 during the annual conference of Discover Life In America, whose mission is to inventory every species that makes its home in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. 

The conference, based in Gatlinburg, includes a full slate of lectures and field trips, including basic field botany with retired Western Carolina University professor Dan Pittillo and a hands-on salamander study in creeks around the Chimneys with Susan Sachs, education coordinator at the Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center in the park. 

www.dlia.org.

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