Part II: Glacier through Great Smoky National Park:

Glacier National Park

ACROSS the BIG SKY
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080531/NEWS01/805310308
Expect delays on Sun Road
The Going-to-the-Sun Road is undergoing rehabilitation as part of a multi-year project overseen by the Federal Highway Administration in partnership with the National Park Service at Glacier National Park.

Crowning achievement
http://www.dailyinterlake.com/articles/2008/05/29/lifestyle/lifestyle01.txt
Conference explores ˜backbone of the world" Update: This conference that had been scheduled June 6 has been postponed until September, according to organizer Rick Graetz.

Ranger at Glacier National Park recently honored http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/05/21/news/state/40-topranger.txt
KALISPELL - You name it, Gary Moses can do it. earch-and-rescue missions, catching grizzly bears, mountaineering, scuba diving, law enforcement, paramedic work, firefighting

Grand Canyon

102-year-old Grand Canyon shop to close - New regulations doomed store, proprietor says
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0531canyonshop0531.html
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK - At a time when tourists visited the Grand Canyon in stagecoaches, they did their souvenir shopping at a tent set up by a man named John George Verkamp.

Couple missing in Grand Canyon found safe
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hFrRzeduXUewg3DcewuZQ2meCoOwD90V37UG0
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — A couple from Utah missing in the Grand Canyon for at least five days have been found alive.

Grand Canyon tourist's death-defying leap (You have to see this one)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopi...fying-leap.html
This is the heart-stopping moment a photographer leapt between two rocky outcrops over the Grand Canyon. Outrage over plans to extract uranium ore from the Grand Canyon
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3872547.ece

A Mayfair mining company has caused uproar with plans to extract uranium from the Grand Canyon prompting one official to ask how Britons would react if an
American company went to drill at Stonehenge.

Grand Teton National Park
Meeting explores transport alternatives for Yellowstone
http://www.wyomingbusinessreport.com/article.asp?id=94031
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK - Attendees of the Yellowstone Business Partnership's annual meeting in May arrived in a novel fashion: They came by bus.

Grand Teton monitoring Gros Ventre River's eroding bank
http://www.kulr8.com/news/wyoming/19353239.html
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING – The superintendent of Grand Teton National Park says park staff and federal highway officials are keeping a close eye on a section of eroding river bank that's near a road inside the park.

Wyoming's Museum of Wildlife Art seeks more humans The 51,000-square-foot facility is the best-kept secret in Wyoming, which is precisely the problem.
http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-trw-wildlife1-2008jun01
The National Museum of Wildlife Art -- a low-slung, reddish flagstone building hugging a hillside along the highway north of this ski town -- was designed to
fit in with its surroundings. The 51,000-square-foot museum succeeded better than expected.

Wolf killed near park
http://www.jhguide.com/article.php?art_id=3079
A poacher killed a wolf in Bridger-Teton National Forest east of Moran Junction in April, and state officials are offering a $3,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.

Great Smoky National Park
Cataloochee elk numbers may top 100 this year http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/2008...p_100_this_year
The Smoky Mountain elk herd, once facing dire odds, could witness its best year yet in 2008, researchers say.

Rainbow warriors
Kill-off part of plan for brook trout survival in Smokies
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/may/25/rainbow-warriors/
In a week, Lynn Camp Prong will be the most fished stream in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Hughs: Firefly spectacular doesn't mask Elkmont eyesore
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/may/22/firefly-spectacular-doesnt-mask-elkmont-eyesore/
There were no amber waves of grain, but the spacious skies and purple mountain majesties made us glad not only to be alive but to be alive in the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park on a beautiful spring afternoon.

New Hiking Resource:
http://www.hikinginthesmokys.com/news.htm