This is not really about gardening in TN, but the Great Smoky Mountain National Park is very important !

http://www.livepositively.com/... You can vote as many times a day as you like!

The winning park will receive a $100,000 grant from Coca-Cola.


edited to say, Oops, I can't change the name of the thread now... arrgh, spelled Smoky wrong!!

No problem, the title is fixed, and you're absolutely right about the park. It is not only one of our largest and most important national parks, it's key to the economy of Tennessee. Thanks for posting this.

wait now do you all not know the park in the only rainforest in north america with a bio-diversity only matched by the amazon rain forests all in your backyard

And that Tennessee is America's most biologically diverse inland state:

http://www.nature.org/ouriniti...

were are the only rain forest in the continental US

The Hoh Rainforest in Washington state is in the continental US.....
http://www.nps.gov/olym/planyo...

Sweet