Great Smoky Mountain National Park News:
Smokies park begins to close seasonal facilities
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is easing into its winter slumber.
http://www.wbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13408539
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Olympic National Park News:
No sign of illness in goat that killed WA hiker
Tests conducted on a 350-pound mountain goat that fatally gored a man in Washington's Olympic National Park and was later killed by rangers show no signs of disease or physical abnormality.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/29/AR2010102900295.html
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Outside the US/Canadian Park System:
Disfigured but alive: Zimbabwe cuts horns to save rhinos
The roaring chainsaw sends fingernail-like shards flying into the baking Zimbabwean bush as it slices through the slumped black rhino's foot-long horn.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/art...0affeefe74f.2c1
Gunfight, rhino killed in Kaziranga
A rhino was killed and its horn sawn off in one corner of Kaziranga National Park while forest guards battled with poachers in another corner on Wednesday night only three days before the park’s opening on November 1.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1101029/jsp/northeast/story_13113456.jsp
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Yellowstone (and Grand Teton) National Park News:
Grizzlies Making Strong Comeback In Yellowstone
Grizzly bear numbers are up at Yellowstone National Park, which means that encounters between bears and humans are also up.
http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/25544979/detail.html
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Yosemite National Park News:
New animal species found in Yosemite
Scientists exploring caves in the tumbled piles of rocks around the sides of Yosemite Valley have discovered a new predatory arachnid species with scary, scorpion-style pinchers but no stinger and no eyes, according to a paper published Sept. 30 by the Museum of Texas Tech University.
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_16458091?source=rss
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Zion National Park News:
Zion National Park nighttime road closures to end
Zion National Park is concluding its nighttime work on the Zion-Mt. Carmel Highway.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700076705/Zion-National-Park-nighttime-road-closures-to-end.html
