Denali National Park News:
Denali Park Road is closed for the winter
The 92-mile road that leads into Denali National Park and Preserve is closed at Mile 3 near park headquarters and the winter trailhead has been established at the headquarters gate in anticipation of more snow.
http://newsminer.com/pages/full_story/pu...gs_editors_desk
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Grand Canyon National Park News:
Arizona defeats ballot measure contesting Grand Canyon ownership
Arizona voters on Tuesday defeated a ballot measure contesting ownership of the Grand Canyon and other federal lands in the state, handing another defeat to the "sagebrush revolt" by Republicans in Western states.
http://news.yahoo.com/arizona-defeats-ba...-093601364.html

Hualapai Tribe seeks bids to pave 9 miles of road leading to Grand Canyon Skywalk
A northwestern Arizona tribe soon will take bids to finish paving the road that leads to the Grand Canyon Skywalk.
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/d9b0675c5d9c401ebd9d0f5520673247/AZ--Grand-Canyon-Skywalk
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Misc. National Park News:
Wolf packs grow in the Pacific Northwest
The iconic howls that echoed through the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest are slowly making a comeback. Wolves are a predator symbolic of the American West.
http://www.dailybarometer.com/wolf-packs-grow-in-the-pacific-northwest-1.2947912
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Yellowstone (and Grand Teton) National Park News:
Mont. considers elk reductions to curb disease
Montana wildlife commissioners will weigh in for the first time Monday on a broad plan to protect against animal disease around Yellowstone by reducing the size of some elk herds, hazing them away from livestock and building elk-proof fences.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/science/artic...p#ixzz2BfoDIJAs
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Yosemite National Park News:
Youth Involvement with National Park Program Promotes College Enrollment
Rebeca Solares never gave much thought to the trees growing in her urban northern California town until she went on a five-day backpacking trip in Yosemite National Park this past summer. There the 12-year-old learned from park rangers that trees need “loving care just like people do.”
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/communi.../#ixzz2Bfnlf240

Nov 14, 2012

Everglades National Park News:
Cooler weather could send pythons into populated areas
“People have been bitten trying to catch them, but no one has ever been killed in the wild,” Cheryl Millet said. “Not that we know of anyway.”
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/2012...populated-areas
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Misc. National Park News:
Interns Helping National Park Service Study Climate Change At Lassen Volcanic National Park And In Rocky Mountain Forests
Through its George Melendez Wright Climate Change Interns and Fellows program, the National Park Service enables university students to visit national parks to investigate issues related to climate change. Here are two of the studies being investigated by students.
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/201...nd-rocky-m10803
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Mount Rainier National Park News:
UPDATE: Missing snowboarders cold, hungry but finally off Rainier after two long nights
A pair of snowboarders who spent two nights on Mount Rainier after getting trapped in a blizzard Sunday hiked off the volcano in snowshoes this afternoon – hungry, cold and tired but uninjured.
http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2012/11/search-continues-this-morning-for-missing-snowboarders/
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Yellowstone/Grand Teton National Park News:
Environmentalists file federal lawsuit over Wyoming wolf plan
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service never should have accepted a wolf-management plan that allows the state of Wyoming to classify the animals as predators that may be shot on sight, environmental groups said in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northw...le_federal.html

Large Greater Yellowstone Grizzly Mortality in 2012, but Gov’t Agency says pop grew anyway
At least 50 dead griz, but population said to grow by 15-
http://www.thewildlifenews.com/2012/11/1...op-grew-anyway/
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