It was the prettiest oak tree in the entire Great Balsam Mountains.

This ought to be giving you ideas for a project to DESIGNATE THE PRETTIEST of each of several different species of tree, in each of several different mountain ranges aorund the world, for instance:

 

• the prettiest incense cedar tree in the entire Tehachapi Mountains;

• the prettiest whitebeam tree in the entire Tatra Mountains;

• the prettiest broad-leaved peppermint tree in the entire Brindabella Range;

• the prettiest Amur linden tree in the entire Changbai Mountains;

• and so on. Tons of fun.

 

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Along the Blue Ridge Parkway in Haywood County, North Carolina, on September 26th, 2022, a view from the Licklog Ridge Overlook, a/k/a the Licklog Gap Overlook, at milepost 435.7, in the Great Balsam Mountains, a subrange of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Appalachian Mountains (7022295)

• Blue Ridge (1108807)

• Great Balsam Mountains (2362553)

• Haywood (county) (2001503)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• autumn (300133093)

• mountain landscapes (300411358)

• mountains (300008795)

• overlooks (300008186)

• parkways (300008294)

• Quercus (genus) (300375060)

• temperate deciduous forests (300387649)

• trees (300132410)

 

Wikidata items:

• 26 September 2022 (Q69306566)

• Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests (Q4780829)

• Appalachian Mountains (Q93332)

• Asheville-Marion-Brevard, NC Combined Statistical Area (Q116304005)

• Blue Ridge ecoregion (Q112230761)

• Blue Ridge Mountains (Q166755)

• Blue Ridge Parkway (Q98195801)

• Blue Ridge Physiographic Province (Q60141323)

• Great Balsam Mountains (Q5598693)

• High Mountains ecoregion (Q116201258)

• Licklog Ridge Overlook (Q104188428)

• National Parkway (Q6979644)

• September 26 (Q2885)

• September 2022 (Q61312992)

• Treaty with the Cherokee, 1798 (Q114703881)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Forests and forestry—North Carolina (sh2009006512)

• Mountains—North Carolina (sh85087916)

• Oak (sh85093565)

• Parkways—North Carolina (sh85098219)

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