Hey Penny, you are right. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.

Anyway, here are today's updates. Not a ton of news, but some interesting.

-James

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Acadia National Park News:
New SERC Head Sees a Larger Picture
It may be difficult to imagine international visitors traveling to the isolated Schoodic Education and Research Center (SERC), but Michael Soukup, the new head of its operating arm, has no problem with that picture.
http://fenceviewer.com/site/index.php?op...0:winter-harbor

Hulls Cove Subdivision Approved
A residential subdivision has been approved for a parcel of land across from the entrance to the Acadia National Park visitor’s center in Hulls Cove.
http://fenceviewer.com/site/index.php?op...id=968:business
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Great Smoky Mountain National Park News:
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Plans To Burn Fields in Cades Cove This Week
If you're planning a drive through Cades Cove in Great Smoky Mountains National Park this week, you might want to postpone it, as park crews are planning to burn about 700 acres of fields in the cove.
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/201...s-cove-week7209
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Yellowstone (and Grand Teton) National Park News:
Many factors pushing grizzly deaths way up
It's been a bad year for grizzly bears, and, if forecasts prove correct, it's only going to get worse.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/09/MNCK1G8R1Q.DTL#ixzz14uafQW2G

Big tree gets big send-off
Spruce cut in Pacific Creek starts journey to U.S. Capitol for Christmas.
A few miles up Pacific Creek, just east of the border between Grand Teton National Park and the Bridger-Teton National Forest, a crowd of government employees and holiday well-wishers holds its collective breath in the frigid predawn air.
http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/article.php?art_id=6664

Record number of visitors continues for Yellowstone in October
Tourists taking advantage of mild fall weather are adding to the already record number of people who have visited Yellowstone National Park this year.
http://www.latimes.com/travel/sns-ap-us-travel-brief-yellowstone-visitors,0,22462.story
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