Grand Canyon National Park News:
Glowing about your recent Grand Canyon trip? Uranium mining could literally do the trick
Nothing says Wild West, summer road-trip, vacation with the kids quite like dipping a gold pan in a chilly Rocky Mountain stream, taking a burro ride along a dusty mining trail, or sifting for fool’s gold in a sluice box. But a new twist this summer could be rollicking in the yellow-cake uranium at one of eight new claims near the Grand Canyon.
http://www.realvail.com/TheOReport/748/G...-the-trick.htmlOld-growth Logging Project Near Grand Canyon Halted in Victory for Conservation and Goshawks
For the second time in a decade, the Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club have halted a U.S. Forest Service plan to log old-growth forests north of Grand Canyon. The Kaibab National Forest reversed its approval of the 26,000-acre Jacob Ryan timber sale, first planned in 1998, admitting in a letter received by the Center this weekend that, “The decision and analysis do not demonstrate compliance with direction in the Kaibab Forest Plan, agency policy, direction and supporting information regarding cumulative effects, and 1996 northern goshawk requirements.”
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2009/jacob-ryan-05-26-2009.html**********
Great Smoky Mountain National Park News:
Synchronous fireflies set to reappear at Elkmont
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is gearing up for an expected influx of visitors to view the yearly appearance of synchronous fireflies at Elkmont.
http://www.thedailytimes.com/article/20090527/NEWS/305279984**********
Misc. Parks News:
Lead shot on the outs (Almost placed in YSNP)
Golden grass strands highlighted with the crisp morning sun conceal an anxious hunter as he squeezes the trigger of his Winchester .243-caliber rifle.
http://www.subletteexaminer.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=1170**********
Yellowstone National Park News:
Once Hunted to Extinction at Yellowstone, Wolves Now Big Money Maker
The gray wolf has made a howling return to Yellowstone National Park. Eradicated by hunting in the 1920’s, 31 wolves from Canada were reintroduced to the park in the winter of 1995-96. Now at least 124 wolves in 12 packs roam the park’s 2.2 million-acres.
http://www.kfbb.com/news/local/46131037.htmlYellowstone reservations picking up; don't wait until the last minute
Three weeks ago reservations at Yellowstone National Park were wide open, as the National Park Service and concessionaire Xanterra were bracing themselves for a slow, slow summer.
http://www.yellowstoneinsider.com/index.php?contentID=924&articleID=282
