Banff National Park News:
Railway spearheads effort to save grizzlies in Banff National Park
Canadian Pacific Railway is shelling out $1-million to research how it can keep grizzly bears off its tracks in Banff National Park, where trains are the top threat to the threatened species.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nati...article1755954/**********
Outside the US/Canadian Park System
Indian elephant deaths spark probe
India's environment minister has ordered a probe into a recent spate of wild elephant deaths, apparently as a result of accidental poisonings, near a remote northeastern wildlife refuge, officials said Thursday.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/arti...docId=D9IRC50G0**********
Rocky Mountain National Park News:
All about the numbers
Park visits up through September
Everything is looking up in Rocky Mountain National Park. With three more reporting months to go, it looks like the park will see close to, if not more than, three million visitors enter in 2010. With 484,455 people counted entering the park in September, the year-to-date number is 2,723,445. This was 4.37 percent more than were counted in 2009 and a 1.5 percent increase in the year-to-date numbers.
http://www.eptrail.com/ci_16339604**********
Yellowstone (and Grand Teton) National Park News:
Bison avoid areas in Wyo. where they can be hunted
Wildlife managers say bison continue to avoid areas where they can be hunted on the National Elk Refuge, making it difficult to reduce the population and protect resources on public land around Jackson Hole.
http://www.necn.com/10/13/10/Bison-avoid...ff0e832ff958265**********
