Glacier National Park News:
Glacier proves to be a very popular park
Visitors flocked to Glacier National Park this year in what could be record numbers.
http://www.flatheadnewsgroup.com/articles/2010/09/16/hungryhorsenews/news/news_8715438576_01.txt**********
Great Smoky Mountain National Park News:
New chief ranger selected for Smokies
Clayton Jordan has been named the new chief ranger for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
http://www.thedailytimes.com/article/20100916/NEWS/309169982**********
Lassen Volcanic National Park News:
Lassen Volcanic National Park Plans to Ignite Three Fall Prescribed Burns
Lassen Volcanic National Park staff plans to ignite three fall prescribed fires due to favorable moisture and weather forecasts, beginning with the Crescent Prescribed Burn as early as September 16th
http://www.plumasnews.com/index.php/home...rescribed-burns**********
Yellowstone (and Grand Teton) National Park News:
Lightning starts several small fires in NW Wyoming
Lightning started several small wildfires in Yellowstone National Park and the Bridger-Teton National Forest this week. The Jackson Hole News & Guide reports fire officials are suppressing 1 of them - a fire burning north of the Monument Ridge prescribed burn - because it's near development.
http://www.kivitv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13164771Sensors Make Studying Yellowstone Geysers Easier
A series 10 small sensors installed in Yellowstone National Park's Norris Geyser Basin will make it easier for scientists and the public to monitor thermal conditions in the area.
http://cbs4denver.com/wireapnewswy/New.sensors.in.2.1915468.htmlOutfitter camps drawing grizzlies
Pacific Creek a hot spot for bears and outfitters.
Bear managers have relocated five grizzlies in the past week from the Pacific Creek area east of Grand Teton National Park after the bears raided outfitter camps for horse feed.
http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/article.php?art_id=6459Dig unearths 9,500 years of native inhabitants
Artifacts tell stories of hunters “enamored with mountains.”
Underneath a white tent near Game Creek along Highway 89/191, University of Wyoming archeology student Bryon Schroeder sits in a 6- foot-deep hole troweling out the winding path of a rodent burrow through a square of gray earth.
http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/article.php?art_id=6462**********
