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Photographer: Stanley and Terrie Howard
Taken: June 18, 2011
Caption: Southern View
Additional Description: Notice the forest that surrounds this tower. This is a spruce-fir forest, comprised mostly of red spruce (Picea rubens) and Fraser fir (Abies fraseri). It is a forest under stress. The dead trees you see are Fraser fir, victims of a European insect. Another threat, with far broader effects, comes from the air.

This park receives the highest sulfur and nitrogen deposits-from acid precipitation-found in any national park. It is most severe at higher elevations. The average acidity of rain and snow here is 5-10 times greater than natural precipitation. This acid fallout damages park soils, streams, plants, and animals.
Submitted: June 27, 2011, by Stanley and Terrie Howard of Greer, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p159063
File Size: 1.116 Megabytes

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