Lots of news published this weekend. Grand Canyon has a very sad on-going story going on about three youth who were lost.
James
Acadia National Park News:
Home and Garden: Best Landscaping Pioneer
The dry remains of Ellen Louise Payson’s once fertile career as a landscape architect reside for posterity in file drawers on the balcony of the Fogler Library Special Collections room on the campus of the University of Maine in Orono.
http://www.downeast.com/node/5856
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Cuyahoga National Park News:
Tiny beaks missing from park's eagle nest
The bald eagle nest in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park has failed.
http://www.ohio.com/news/44235547.html
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Denali National Park News:
Clear skies allow surge up McKinley
An extended stretch of clear weather has allowed 49 climbers to head up Mount McKinley as the spring mountaineering season at Denali National Park gets under way.
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/780765.html
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Everglades National Park News:
A seasonal park ranger ends his tour of duty at Everglades National Park
A SEASONAL PARK RANGER ENJOYS HIS TIME AT EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK -- WHILE GETTING READY FOR HIS NEXT ASSIGNMENT IN CAPE COD
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/communities/south/story/1028736.html
Former Cold War Era Missile Base Becomes National Park Attraction
National park rangers are working to recover a missile base that played a central role in the nuclear tensions between the United States and Soviet Union during the 1960s.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-05-02-voa24.cfm
(BPRW) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers publishes draft plan for restoring flows to Everglades National Park and Florida Bay
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District has published a draft report for restoring flows via Taylor Slough to the southern Everglades and Florida Bay. The C-111 Spreader Canal Western Project is a component of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP).
http://www.blackprwire.com/press-release...and_florida_bay
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Glacier National Park News:
Good things in works for 2010 celebration (Scroll low, the format of the page is a bit off)
Glacier National Park is quickly approaching its 100th anniversary. The park has empowered a team of volunteers to help plan and implement a community-based Centennial Program to take place throughout the latter half of 2009 and run through the celebration year of 2010.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/may/02/glacier-park-announces-pre-centennial-events/
Recent storm slows Glacier Park plowing
Freak snowstorms and surprise avalanches have slowed crews plowing Glacier National Park’s famed mountain roadway - which is to say, things are going about as planned.
http://www.nwpphotoforum.com/ubbthreads/newpost.php?Cat=0&Board=National%20Park&page=0
Missoula event welcomes bears out of hibernation
In Native tradition, Chuck Jonkel and friends gathered in a celebration of spring along Rattlesnake Creek on Friday to welcome grizzly and black bears from their deep winter sleep.
http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2009/05/01/bnews/br51.txt
Glacier Park road will get stimulus
U.S. Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester say $27.6 million in federal stimulus money will go toward rebuilding a key stretch of the Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park.
http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/05/02/news/state/53-glacierpark.txt
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Grand Canyon National Park News:
Three Swept Away by Grand Canyon Waters
Yesterday afternoon, Grand Canyon National Park Rangers recovered the body of a young man missing since Thursday morning, when he and two others disappeared after jumping into the Colorado River. The young man has been identified as 16 year-old, Mark Merrill.
http://www.naztoday.com/uncategorized/2009/04/three-swept-away-by-grand-canyon-waters/
Boy drowned in Grand Canyon identified
Grand Canyon National Park officials have identified the body found during a search for three young people who were swept away by the Colorado River on Thursday.
http://www.localnews8.com/Global/story.asp?S=10291315&nav=menu554_2_3
Search Continues Today for Two Young Men Still Missing in Grand Canyon
Yesterday afternoon, Grand Canyon National Park Rangers recovered the body of a young man missing since Thursday morning, when he and two others disappeared after jumping into the Colorado River. The young man has been identified as 16 year-old, Mark Merrill.
http://www.naztoday.com/news/local-news/...n-grand-canyon/
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Great Smoky Mountain National Park News:
Beginner with a backpack
Novice hiker heads into the Smokies for a multiday trip
Those of us who grew up in the flat subdivisions of central Ohio don't naturally think that a place's name might be literal.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/tra...1K.html?sid=101
Rain aids in Smokies fire fights
A fire near Laurel Falls in Great Smoky Mountains National Park is completely contained, and all hiking trails in the park are currently open, the National Park Service reported today.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/may/02/rain-aids-smokies-fire-fights/
Laurel Falls Hiking Trail Fire Damage Report
Wild fires in the Great Smoky Mountains national park are inevitable and in fact in some cases even encouraged under controlled circumstances. This is not the case with this week's Laurel Falls Wildfire which threatened one of the parks most valuable natural resources as well as homes and businesses close by.
http://yoursmokies.blogspot.com/2009/05/laurel-falls-hiking-trail-fire-damage.html
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Kouchibouguac National Park News:
New Brunswick national park is full of wildlife, trails, beaches
We are knee deep in bathtub-warm salt water, swinging nets along the ocean bottom like shortstops scooping up ground balls, halfway up the coast of the Canadian province of New Brunswick, where those not in the know would think a dip in the water would be suitable only for polar bears.
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090503/STYLE/305039983/-1/style
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Misc. National Park News:
No natives allowed
Over the last century, the conservation movement has created some beautiful parks - and millions of refugees.
LAFAYETTE BUNNELL, AMERICAN explorer and wilderness romantic, first rode into the bucolic stillness of Yosemite on March 21, 1851. He was on a voyage of discovery. Once in the valley he thought he had arrived, if not in heaven, in Eden. "I have seen the power and glory of a supreme being," he wrote in his journal, and "the majesty of his handiwork."
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/05/03/no_natives_allowed/
A glimpse inside the mind of a photographer
Welcome to the first Wild Faces, Wild Places column. The desire to pursue nature photography was the result of colliding life interests. Born a fresh air junkie, I've spent much of the past 30 years traveling and exploring diverse wilderness with a fly rod in one hand, a camera in the other. I've always been drawn to the outdoors, favoring anything off the beaten path.
http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20090503/ENTERTAINMENT06/905030312
Wal-Mart vs. the Wilderness
In May 1864, two armies clashed in a desperate struggle for the course of our nation's history. The Battle of the Wilderness was a great turning point of the Civil War -- the first clash between Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant and the beginning of the end for the beleaguered Confederacy. The fighting was so intense that the tangled underbrush caught fire, burning wounded soldiers alive.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/02/AR2009050202004.html
A man and his best bud — an 800-pound bear
Naturalist chronicles his amazing and wild friendship with a grizzly bear (OK, so it is not really about the Parks, but it is cute in its own way)
When wildlife naturalist Casey Anderson and his wife, actress Missi Pyle, got married last August, there was one guest in attendance that overshadowed the bride: Brutus, an 800-pound grizzly bear that Anderson had raised after he rescued the cub from an overpopulated wildlife park.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/30522938/
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Outside the US/Canadian Park System:
Huge rock slide at Mt Cook puzzles geologists
The largest landslip in the Aoraki Mt Cook National Park for more than a decade has produced a rock slide of more than a million cubic metres of rock. The 900 metre long slip took the top off the left "fang" of a peak known as Vampire, at the head of the Mueller Glacier.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/233269/Huge-rock-slide-at-Mt-Cook-puzzles-geologists
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Rocky Mountain National Park News:
Identifying body found in national park may take weeks.
The conclusive identification of a body found in a burned car in Rocky Mountain National Park on Wednesday may take weeks, authorities said Thursday.
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_12267512
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Washington State National Parks (Misc. Non Specific):
Good news for hikers: Trails to be repaired
Fix-it time should bring relief to hikers who have been prevented, sometimes for years, from exploring several regions in our area after a series of devastating storms.
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090502/LIVING/705029980
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Yellowstone National Park News:
YNP to receive nearly $15 million in new funds
Yellowstone National Park will receive $14,735,000 in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
http://www.westyellowstonenews.com/articles/2009/05/01/news/news1.txt
A love affair with Yellowstone's bison
“Did you see any baby bison?” That was the first question people asked us who knew we spent three days in Yellowstone when the park’s West Entrance opened April 17.
http://www.islandparknews.com/atf.php?sid=6331¤t_edition=2009-04-30
Pack dens near Mammoth
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 backyards of employee housing.
http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/05/01/news/wyoming/16-mammoth.txt
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Zion National Park News:
Narrows in Zion National Park reopening
The Narrows area at Zion National Park is reopening.
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12271916