Great Smoky Mountain National Park News:
Smokies doing its part to advance Great Outdoors Initiative
National parks play key role in creating nature enthusiasts
It's been four months since President Barack Obama signed a memorandum establishing the America's Great Outdoors Initiative to develop a conservation and recreation agenda for the 21st century.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/aug/22/smokies-helping-lead-the-way/**********
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park News:
Drought forces Additional closures in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Extreme fire danger conditions continue in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park due to a prolonged dry spell.
http://www.hawaii247.com/2010/08/21/drou...-national-park/**********
Misc. National Park News:
Lesser Known, Gorgeous National Parks
Peter Greenberg on the Hidden Treasures, and Less-Traveled Spots in Well-Known Parks; Great for Family Getaways; Often Free
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/21/earlyshow/living/travel/main6792667.shtmlTechnology Leads More Park Visitors into Trouble
Cathy Hayes was cracking jokes as she recorded a close encounter with a buffalo on her camera in a recent visit to Yellowstone National Park.
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_15853552?source=rss&nclick_check=1Yellowstone, Glacier building work making Valier's Swank a national park player
Construction is different when the nearest hardware store is a 2 1/2-hour snowmobile ride away, home is a "man camp" and any worker who looks the least bit official can expect a barrage of tourist questions.
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article...nal-park-player**********
Outside the US/Canadian Park System:
On a mission to track and save the elusive jaguar
GUATOPO NATIONAL PARK, Venezuela -- The search begins where a dirt road ends, in a forest festooned with vines and filled with the chatter of trilling birds. This is the realm of jaguars, and a young biologist has made it her mission to find them.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/21/AR2010082101818.html**********
Yellowstone National Park News:
Wharton: What’s all the howling over wolves about? It’s complicated. (Editorial)
Some outdoor scenes produce such drama that they become etched in a person’s mind.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/outdoors/50102041-117/elk-wolves-state-wharton.html.csp?page=1Returning Predators to the Wild
From the standpoint of species and ecosystem health, limited attempts at predator reintroduction in the United States have for the most part proven very successful. The gray wolf, extirpated by hunters in the Yellowstone region some 90 years ago, is now thriving there in the wake of a controversial reintroduction program initiated in 1995, when the National Park Service released 31 gray wolves into the park’s expansive backcountry.
http://www.healthnewsdigest.com/news/Environment_380/Returning_Predators_to_the_Wild.shtmlLightning-ignited fire at Yellowstone National Park still growing
A fire at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming continues to spread in the same area where a 2001 fire burned at the park.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/21/yellowstone.fire/
