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The Cherokee National Forest is located in Eastern Tennessee and stretches from Chattanooga to Bristol along the North Carolina border. The 640,000-acre forest is the largest tract of public land in Tennessee.  Cherokee National Forest lies in the heart of the Southern Appalachian mountain range, one of the world's most ecologically diverse areas.  These mountains are home to more than 20,000 species of plants and animals.

 http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/Living/Outdoors/article.php?id=79197

350 year old chestnut oak - photo by Jerry Greer

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a new book featuring photography of the Blue Ridge Mountains might offer quite an earful - which is exactly the goal of a conservation group presenting the book to the public at East Tennessee State University Thursday.

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