Great Smoky Mountains National Park
United Nations Educational Scientific
and Cultural Organization
MAB
Program on Man and the Biosphere
By Decision of the Bureau of the international
coordinating council of the program on man
and the biosphere, duly authorized
to that effect by the council
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
is recognized as part of
the international network of biosphere reserves.
This network of protected samples of
the world's major ecosystem types
is devoted to conservation
of nature and scientific research
in the service of man. It provides a standard against which the effect
of man's impact on his environment
can be measured.
Marker is on U.S. 441.
Courtesy hmdb.org
