Users of the iNaturalist app - scientists and park staff but also visitors and even kids - have logged 6,939 species in the Great Smoky Mountains.

Smokies Life received national recognition at the 2025 Public Lands Alliance Partnership Awards for “Letters from the Smokies ...

One of the most-favorited iNaturalist photos taken in Great Smoky Mountains National Park is this 2011 image, submitted in 2018, of a timber rattlesnake eating a chipmunk. This data, in turn ...

Two decades ago, thousands of flies, bugs and beetles met their end in insect traps set up at 11 sites around Great Smoky Mountains National Park, part of a still-young effort to catalogue every ...

Smokies Most Wanted is a list of 100 species ... species but also some less common species.” “In a lot of the photos that are posted to iNaturalist, the subject will be interacting with ...