{"id":1444,"date":"2013-03-21T14:04:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T18:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cabinsforyou.com\/blog\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:12:15","slug":"discover-life-in-america-celebrates-15-years-of-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cabinsforyou.com\/blog\/events\/discover-life-in-america-celebrates-15-years-of-discovery.htm","title":{"rendered":"Discover Life in America celebrates \u201c15 Years of Discovery\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Great Smoky Mountains National Park<\/strong> is home to one of the world&#8217;s most biologically diverse ecosystems. The park is home to an estimated 60,000 to 80,000 species of wildflowers, trees, bears, deer, squirrels, salamanders, snakes, birds, fish, bats and more. Its diversity adds to its beauty, drawing millions of visitors each year. Along with the many species of plants and animals, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park has dozens of streams and unique rock formations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discover Life in America<\/strong> will be celebrating its efforts to catalog every living species in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park with a conference in Gatlinburg. The All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Conference will be held from March 21<sup>st<\/sup> to March 23<sup>rd<\/sup> at Glenstone Lodge.<\/p>\n<p>Experts and volunteers from around the world will participate by focusing on the education, research and conservation of Discover Life in America. The conference will include nature hikes, stream mapping and lectures. Here are some of the things happening at this year&#8217;s conference:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00b7Field Trip:\u00a0 Spring (Ephemerals) Wildflowers and Their Fascinating Pollination Schemes<\/li>\n<li>\u00b7Field Trip: Salamanders of the Smokies<\/li>\n<li>\u00b7Update on Park Air Resources with Jim Renfro<\/li>\n<li>\u00b7Crayfish of Hazel Creek and Eagle Creek Watersheds with Zach Loughman<\/li>\n<li>\u00b7Documenting Ferns of the Smokies Using Citizen Scientists with Pat Cox<\/li>\n<li>\u00b7Natural History of the Southern Appalachians with Dan Pittillo<\/li>\n<li>\u00b7Aquatic Insect Adventures with Harold Hayes and Joey Prichard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are just a few of the things on the schedule. There are many more field trips and events planned, so check the schedule at dlia.org for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is home to one of the world&#8217;s most biologically diverse ecosystems. The park is home to an estimated 60,000 to 80,000 species of wildflowers, trees, bears, deer, squirrels, salamanders, snakes, birds, fish, bats and more. Its diversity adds to its beauty, drawing millions of visitors each year. Along with the many species of plants and animals, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park has dozens of streams and unique rock formations. Discover Life in America will be celebrating its efforts to catalog every living species in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park with a conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cabinsforyou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cabinsforyou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cabinsforyou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cabinsforyou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cabinsforyou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cabinsforyou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11154,"href":"https:\/\/www.cabinsforyou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/11154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cabinsforyou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cabinsforyou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cabinsforyou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cabinsforyou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}