Hi! I just wanted to let you all know that there is now a petition that has been started to STOP the controversial North Shore Road from being completed in the Smoky Mountains on the N. Carolina side. As you may know, this road would cut through the largest tract of continuous virgin forest east of the Mississippi. It will also terribly affect the views and privacy of the Appalachian Trail in the area.

If you or anyone you know would like to sign this petition, please forward it to them. Also, ask them to forward it to their friends as well! Once the petition is finished, we will send it on to the planners of the North Shore Road.

The info is below! Thank you sooo much for caring about the beautiful Smokies and the AT in this area!
-Angie Smisson
Georgia

To read about the petition and to sign it just visit:

http://www.petitionthem.com/default.asp?sect=detail&pet=2456



Overview of this petition: -
The proposed North Shore Road would cut through the Great Smoky Mountains
in North Carolina, in an area that is the largest tract of continuous,
virgin woodlands east of the Mississippi. It would also cause unsightly
land scars, increased noise levels, impaired views along stretches of the
Appalachian Trail, and cause chemicals from the Anakeesta rock formations
to enter the streams during construction. This could have a deadly impact
on the vast aquatic life, including the famous Smoky Mountain Salamander
population. It would also displace numerous land mammals who call this
stand of virgin forest home.

We wish to stop this road before it is too late. If allowed to happen,
this road will forever change the face of the Great Smokies as we know
them today. We cannot afford to lose even one precious acre in this
magnificent place called, The Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

We are asking the planners of the North Shore Road project, in conjunction
with the National Park Service, to please provide monetary settlement to
the affected Swain County, North Carolina.

This road was proposed to be built as compensation to the county for
several of their roads being flooded in the early part of the 1900's
when the Fontana Dam was built.