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Friday’s Video

Friday, October 22nd, 2010
Members of the Great Smoky Mountains Association recently joined naturalist Wanda Dewaard on a mission to tag and release monarch butterflies in Cades Cove. The tags will help researchers with the Monarch Watch program learn more about the flight patterns of these butterflies as they migrate to Mexico for the winter.

Here's a GSMA video highlighting the process of tagging the butterflies:


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Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com

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