In the Smokies, over 90 percent of Fraser firs-a noble tree, unique to the southern Appalachian highlands-are sick or dying, from a combination of acid rain and the depredations of a moth called the balsam woolly adelgid. Ask a park official what they are doing about it and he will say, "We are monitoring the situation closely.”. (Bill Bryson)

In the Smokies, over 90 percent of Fraser firs-a noble tree, unique to the southern Appalachian highlands-are sick or dying, from a combination of acid rain and the depredations of a moth called the balsam woolly adelgid. Ask a park official what they are doing about it and he will say, "We are monitoring the situation closely.”.

Bill Bryson

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