Denali National Park News:
Denali Park closed to snowmachines
The National Park Service has closed all lands inside Denali National Park and Preserve that were open to snowmachining on both sides of the Alaska Range and is prohibiting off-road vehicle traffic on several subsistence-user trails near Cantwell.
http://www.newsminer.com/news/2009/may/06/denali-park-closed-snowmachines/**********
Great Smoky Mountain National Park News:
Forest Service closes caves to stop bat fungus (Editors note - only peripherally about GSMNP)
The U.S. Forest Service is closing thousands of caves and former mines in national forests in 33 states in an effort to control a fungus that has already killed an estimated 500,000 bats.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8488330**********
Rocky Mountain National Park News:
Victim in Rocky Mountain National Park accident was part-time Grand Laker
Connie “CJ” Fanning, 55, of Arvada and Grand Lake died April 28 in Rocky Mountain National Park in a motor vehicle accident that resulted in a car fire.
http://www.skyhidailynews.com/article/20090505/NEWS/905059970/1079&ParentProfile=1067**********
Yellowstone National Park News:
Wolves denning right outside Yellowstone headquarters
The sound of howling wolves and wolf sightings are becoming regular occurrences at Yellowstone National Park's headquarters in Mammoth, Wyo. The wolves have even made nighttime elk kills in the backyards of park employee housing.
http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2009/05/06/news/mtregional/znews12.txtPaintballing wolves
Yellowstone’s leading wolf biologist: “We paintballed them in late January. But I’ve not gotten into them yet with what I call the heavy artillery — bean bags and rubber bullets. But I am itching to do that because they need a lesson.”
http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/2009/05/05/paintballing-wolves/Wanna Shoot a Wolf? Come to Idaho
Before she was found slain 120 miles west of Denver in late March 2009, wolf 341F charted an extraordinary course, tracked only by satellite, through the heart of Western ranch country, where her kind are still regarded as lupus non grata.
http://norfolk.va.mycitytalk.us/article/News/Politics/Wanna_Shoot_a_Wolf_Come_to_Idaho/22954
