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Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Climate Friendly Parks
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Do Your Part! for Climate Friendly Parks
Do Your Part! for Climate Friendly Parks is the first interactive online program in the country that provides national park visitors and supporters with tools to understand and reduce their carbon footprints and thereby help to protect our national parks from global warming. Do Your Part! is sponsored by the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) in support of the National Park Service’s Climate Friendly Parks program.
Why is Do Your Part! important? From melting glaciers and eroding seashores to growing wildfires and decreasing wildlife, our national parks are being impacted by global warming. Do Your Part! offers the millions of national park visitors educational and inspiring opportunities to do their part to prevent global warming and protect our natural resources.
How much of a difference can Do Your Part! make? People often feel their actions are too small to have an impact on an issue as big as global warming. However, when taken together, many small actions can make a big difference. Every year, our national parks see roughly 270 million visitors. If even a fraction of those visitors began making simple changes at home and on the road, the effect would be enormous.
Visit the Do Your Part! website for additional information. Or download the Do Your Part! and .
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![All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory snail All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory snail](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081018124234im_/http://www.nps.gov/ser/customcf/apps/CMS_HandF/Pictures/GRSM_snail_CW100.jpg) All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Join other citizen scientists and volunteers in discovering new species in the park. more... | | ![Black-chinned red salamander Black-chinned red salamander](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081018124234im_/http://www.nps.gov/ser/customcf/apps/CMS_HandF/Pictures/GRSM_salamander.jpg) Salamander Capital of the World! At least thirty species of salamanders live in the park. more... | |
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Did You Know?
There are at least 30 different species of salamanders in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This gives the Smokies the distinction of having the most diverse salamander population anywhere in the world and has earned the park the nickname “Salamander Capital of the World.”
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Last Updated: June 13, 2008 at 13:32 EST |