Hearings and Business Meetings

Subcommittee on National Parks FIELD hearing: to receive testimony regarding the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory of all species within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Asheville, North Carolina)

July 21, 2008
09:30 AM
The purpose of the hearing is to receive testimony regarding the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory of all species within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Specifically, the hearing will address: (1) How much has been learned up to this point and at what cost? (2) What is left to be done and what is the estimated time and cost to complete the inventory? (3) How has the data been used and are there other ways to use it? (4) What changes, if any, should be made in the program and (5) Should the program be expanded to include other National Parks?

Witness Panel 1

  • Dale Ditmason

    Park Superintendent
    Great Smoky Mountains National Park, National Park Service

  • Dr. Peter White

    Professor of Biology
    University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  • Glen Bogart

    Principal
    Pi Bet Phi Elementary School, Gatlinburg TN

  • Dr. Tim Watkins

    Program Officer
    National Geographic Society