The Storybook Trail of the Smokies will wind against a backdrop of peaceful forest and rushing waterways. NPS photos
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park hopes to help visitors experience the Smokies story in a new way thanks to a partnership with the University of Tennessee Extension Institute of Agriculture and the Great Smoky Mountains Association.
The Storybook Trail of the Smokies, an initiative to promote literacy in nature, will be open to visitors from April 3 to May 30. As they walk the 1-mile Cosby Nature Trail near Cosby Campground, visitors will read a Smokies-themed book via trailside activities and on-the-trail story pages displayed for them to read along the way.
The first-ever drive-thru Winter Lights experience at the N.C. Arboretum brought record numbers of people to see the bright holiday display, though th.
31 March 2021
The liver is one of the organs most susceptible to drug toxicity and drug induced liver injury (DILI). DILI is a major cause of drug attrition, with more than 750 FDA approved drugs known to have a degree of DILI risk. There are a number of strategies to de-risk DILI in drug discovery and, in recent years, focus has turned to human in vitro 3D liver models to better predict DILI in early and pre-clinical development. These models culture primary human liver cells, often in co-cultures, in a physiologically relevant environment allowing them to stay functional for extended periods of time. This application assesses whether a microphysiological system (MPS), also known as Organ-on-a-Chip (OOC), in vitro liver model could be used to understand the detailed mechanistic aspects of liver toxicity.
Trout waters open this weekend
Hatchery Supported Trout Waters will open at 7 a.m. Saturday, April 3, with the season running through Feb. 28 of next year.
Hatchery Supported Trout Waters are marked by green-and-white signs and have been closed for the past month so that N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission staff can stock them with trout. Staff will continue stocking certain streams through August some monthly, and some heavily fished waters more frequently.
Over the next six months, staff will stock nearly 787,000 trout 96 percent averaging 10 inches in length and 4 percent exceeding 14 inches.
These waters are open to public fishing, but the land around them is often privately owned. The Wildlife Commission encourages anglers to respect the property they’re fishing on and remember that landowners can take away access if they feel their property is being misused.