Death Valley National Park News:
Suspicious fire guts Charles Manson's remote Death Valley hide-out
The Barker Ranch cabin's rock walls and tin roof are still intact, but its wooden interior beams and window and door frames are reduced to ash. An outbuilding is destroyed.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-barker-ranch8-2009may08,0,5741963.story
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Denali National Park News:
Denali Park visitors center opens for season
The Denali National Park and Preserve visitors center will open for the summer tourist season May 15.
http://newsminer.com/news/2009/may/06/denali-park-visitors-center-opens-season/
German climber first to summit Denali this year
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A German has become the first person to successfully summit Denali during this year's climbing season, beating seven other climbers on the same day.
http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=10318693
Uncle Sam gets stressed (Note, only peripherally and briefly about Denali, but given the recent Omnibus, interesting).
Treasury releases its evaluations of top banks' financial health -- but the federal budget reveals that the government's own fiscal position is shaky.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/05/08/stress_tests/
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Grand Canyon National Park News:
Coalition: Plant's pollution mars Canyon views
A coalition of conservation groups and tribal organizations has petitioned the National Park Service to formally declare that pollution from the Navajo Generating Station near Page impairs the view at Grand Canyon National Park, whose eastern boundaries lie 12 miles from the power plant.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2009/05/08/20090508canyon.html
Woman injured in Grand Canyon mule mishap
A 66-year-old California woman was injured when the mule she was riding lost its footing on the Bright Angel Trail, then fell and rolled over on her.
http://www.azdailysun.com/articles/2009/05/05/news/breaking/doc4a00e4c8210c9075518382.txt
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Great Smoky Mountain National Park News:
Caves closing due to bat deaths
The U.S. Forest Service is closing thousands of caves and former mines in national forests in 33 states to try to control a fungus that has already killed an estimated 500,000 bats, the Associated Press reports.
http://www.tennessean.com/article/200905...e+to+bat+deaths
Can you use bear spray in the Smokies?
Your Smokies blog: When we first reported that bear spray is illegal in the Great Smoky Mountains national park and provided the law in writing, some people questioned the accuracy of what they felt was our interpretation of the law and to further confuse matters, someone in the parks backcountry office gave out conflicting information on April 20th which was posted onto a web site.
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/silence/archives/2009/05/can_you_use_bea.shtml
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Misc. National Park News:
Owners surprised by U.S. plan to seize land for Flight 93 site
PITTSBURGH - One man inherited property that a grandfather had bought during the Depression. A pastor owns a cottage where he planned to retire.
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/200...ht_93_site.html
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Petrified Forest National Park News:
Petrified Forest National Park
Talk about climate change.
A few hundred million years ago, the desolate, high-desert plains in northeastern Arizona straddled the equator. Rivers and streams flowed through a lowland basin where thickets of coniferous trees, some 9 feet in diameter and 200 feet tall, towered over the landscape.
http://www.azcentral.com/travel/parks/articles/2009/05/07/20090507petrified0510.html
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Yellowstone National Park News:
Govs slam federal brucellosis plan; Yellowstone bison in the crosshairs
A federal plan to set up a brucellosis-management zone around Yellowstone National park would do nothing to eliminate the disease while stigmatizing stockmen in the area, according to the governors of Wyoming and Idaho.
http://www.yellowstoneinsider.com/index.php?contentID=924&articleID=268
Yellowstone workers, visitors coping with Canyon pack
MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS - The prospect of wolves wandering through the government housing area here doesn't concern resident Ken Meyer.
http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/05/07/news/wyoming/18-yellowstone.txt
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Yosemite National Park News:
Yosemite National Park to revisit tribal ties
The park will review visitor information and archives to make sure that its American Indian history is accurately reflected.
Yosemite National Park will review its visitor brochures, information booths and historical archives to ensure that local tribes' ancestral ties to the treasured landscape are accurately reflected.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-yosemite8-2009may08,0,4064416.story
