Hey Everyone,
Sorry for the abbreviated list of news events...still sifting through all of them. I will be gone until this evening, and this is a start. :P It has been slow the last couple of days, but I hope that there is more local stuff by this evening.
-JM
Lassen Volcanic National Park News:
Sunday Drive: Lassen Volcanic National Park
WHAT YOU'LL SEE: Snowplow crews on Lassen's Main Park Highway punched through at 8,500 feet this past week and then opened the road Friday for the first time to visitor traffic in nearly six months.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/07/SPRS180D85.DTL**********
Great Smoky Mountain National Park News:
Smokies Park superintendent challenged, inspired by work in Smokies
On his first weekend as the new superintendent of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Dale Ditmanson attended a board meeting with the Friends of the Smokies, the nonprofit organization that supports the park through fundraising.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/jun/07/park-superintendent-challenged-inspired-by-work/**********
Outside the US/Canadian Park System:
Elephant electrocuted in national park
A 14-year-old female elephant died of electrocution in Rayong's Khao Chamao-Khao Wong National Park yesterday morning.
http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20090607-146665.html**********
Zion National Park News:
100 years of Zion National Park
It is a place of spectacular, towering cliffs, shimmering Navajo sandstone formations and the roar and rush of the Virgin River, which painstakingly carves a masterpiece of geologic formations duplicated nowhere else in the world.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705309001,00.html
Amazing adventures: Zion National Park offers hikes from easy to strenuous
My first impressions as a boy of 9 or 10 riding into Zion Canyon with my parents and sister Elaine were:
So, this is what a "national park" is like, "a wonderfully big and spectacularly beautiful … park."
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705308787,00.html
