Acadia National Park News:
Winter Camping at Acadia National Park
While most view Acadia National Park as the perfect summer destination, folks have been known to head there in the winter months. With that in mind, the park keeps the Blackwoods Campground open on a limited basis for the hardy who want to experience a different season in Acadia.
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2009/12/winter-camping-acadia-national-park5013
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Great Smoky Mountain National Park News:
Efforts to curtail insect in Smokies showing progress
The wool-like protective ovisacs of hemlock woolly adelgids are on an infected tree near Townsend in March 2008.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/dec/05/efforts-to-curtail-insect-in-smokies-showing/
$873,000 grant awarded to trail improvements
This week the National Park Service announced that grants have been awarded for 17 trails projects across the National Park System.
http://hikinginthesmokys.blogspot.com/2009/12/873000-grant-awarded-to-trail.html
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Misc. National Park News:
Updated: NPS Director Jarvis Ends "Core Ops" Budgeting Across The National Park System
In a brief, four-paragraph memorandum, National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis has brought to an end a budgeting process that stripped arguably key positions from parks. Dubbed "core ops" for its approach to analyzing a park's core operations, the process failed to produce wise budgeting decisions, the director said in a letter to his regional directors.
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/200...park-system5041
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Outside the US/Canadian Park System:
Endangered Gorillas, Ugandan Village Learn to Coexist
Years of protecting the mountain gorillas of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwest Uganda nearly unraveled four years ago when gorillas began to destroy farm crops outside the reserve.
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010843.html
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Yellowstone (and Grand Teton) National Park News:
Feds kill 7 wolves in Stanley Basin
For one Idaho wolf pack, there wasn’t much to be grateful for this Thanksgiving.
http://www.magicvalley.com/news/local/article_f413d14d-3a26-5f1d-8728-2760eccecbc8.html
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