Denali National Park News:
Nasty weather doesn’t put damper on Denali Park bike ride
Even if there had been a grizzly bear digging up roots along Igloo Creek on the side of Denali Park Road on Sunday, I don’t think I would have been able to see it.
http://newsminer.com/news/2009/may/14/nasty-weather-doesnt-put-damper-drive-bike-ride-de/**********
Everglades National Park News:
Wildfires threaten state
It's a race between rain and lightning. As wildfires ignite across bone-dry South Florida, there are signs that the rainy season may have started early.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-florida-wildfires-b051409,0,2366435.story
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Grand Teton National Park News:
Visitor Center brings life the Tetons (Beware Annoying Audio Ad)
JACKSON -- His paw didn't fit in the bison, the mule deer or the pronghorn.
http://www.trib.com/articles/2009/05/13/features/open_spaces/2557a2bdc3f0f361872575b50065699b.txt**********
Great Smoky Mountain National Park News:
Smokies get $64M in stimulus funds; 1,500 jobs to be created
GATLINBURG — The Great Smoky Mountains National Park will receive $64 million in federal stimulus money, with most of the funds going toward road work.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/may/14/smokies-park-gets-64m-federal-stimulus-money/**********
Misc. National Park News:
Rangers, Conservation & Anti-Violence Groups‏ Seek National Park Gun Ban
Ranger, Conservation, and Violence Prevention Organizations Call on President Obama to Keep American Families, Wildlife Safe in National Parks.
In a letter sent to President Obama today, several national park ranger organizations, the nonprofit National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), The Humane Society of the United States, Violence Policy Center, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, and the Legal Community Against Violence asked for the president’s help in stopping efforts to allow loaded rifles, shotguns, and semi-automatic weapons in America’s national parks—risking the safety of American families and wildlife.
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/may142009/park_gun_ban_5-14-09.phpWhat Do Guns and Credit Cards Have in Common? (Editorial)
Never underestimate the power and ingenuity of the gun lobby.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2009/05/what_do_guns_and_credit_cards.htmlSenate okays loaded guns, semiautomatic weapons in Yellowstone
The U.S. Senate Tuesday passed an amendment allowing the legal holders of loaded guns, rifles and semiautomatic weapons to carry them into Yellowstone National Park as long as state and local law allowed it. The amendment to a bill restricting the rights of credit-card companies passed by a 67-29 margin, attracting 39 Republican votes, 27 Democratic votes and one independent vote.
http://www.yellowstoneinsider.com/index.php?contentID=924&articleID=273**********
Rocky Mountain National Park News:
Rocky Mountain National Park proposes more Longs Peak parking
Campground would be lost to parking-lot expansion
Rocky Mountain National Park proposes more Longs Peak BOULDER, Colo. — By mid-morning on Saturdays in July -- when the weather forecast is good -- the parking spaces at the cramped Longs Peak trailhead in Rocky Mountain National Park have been full for hours and vehicles line the steep road leading up to the trail from the Peak to Peak Highway.
http://www.coloradodaily.com/news/2009/may/14/rocky-mountain-national-park-longs-peak-parking/Man rescued after being blown off glacier in Rocky Mountain National Park
A 57-year-old man went through a harrowing ordeal this week in Rocky Mountain National Park after falling off a glacier.
http://www.skyhidailynews.com/article/20090512/NEWS/905129973/1079&ParentProfile=1067**********
Yellowstone National Park News:
Bison hazed near Yellowstone National Park
WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. (AP) More than 100 bison were hazed off Horse Butte Peninsula and into Yellowstone National Park on Thursday as part of an annual roundup to prevent the spread of brucellosis to Montana cattle.
http://cbs4denver.com/coloradowire/22.0....isonRoundup.xml2 Yellowstone workers fired after watering geyser
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Two seasonal Yellowstone National Park concession workers have been fired after a live webcam caught them urinating into the Old Faithful geyser.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iNfrGcynNUWA7rGsrQD5hm33Pq5wD986AACO0APHIS official: Brucellosis-free zone could help beat disease
Declaring the United States — except for the region just outside Yellowstone National Park — free of brucellosis could be a key to finally eradicating the disease, a federal APHIS official told Wyoming legislators meeting in Powell on Wednesday.
http://powelltribune.com/index.php/content/view/990/1/
