Acadia National Park News:
How to enjoy camping in the cold (Note - not news, but interesting)
When I pulled up to the gate at Blackwoods Campground in Acadia National Park last Saturday, I placed my permit for winter camping on the dash of the truck, hoisted my backpack and walked up the path to my campsite for the night. The trail was only a few hundred feet long, and I was running out of daylight.
http://www.bangordailynews.com/story/Outdoors/How-to-enjoy-camping-in-the-cold,161767?ref=mostReadBox
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Congaree National Park News:
A Highway Project in Congaree National Park Sparks Legal Challenges
Plans for replacing a defective bridge over the Congaree River in central South Carolina call for rebuilding several miles of causeways on the flood plain within Congaree National Park.
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/201...-challenges7373**********
Everglades National Park News:
Poisonous plants thrive in South Florida
Plant poisonings primarily affect children
A decorative plant found on highway medians in South Florida contains chemicals that can stop your heart. A bush with flamboyantly drooping flowers serves as a cheap hallucinogen for teenagers, who then wind up on ventilators. The sap of a tree that grows along beaches causes painful blisters that discharge liquid that forms more blisters.
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-12...rmation-networkLast-of-its-breed Florida wildlife park on endangered list
On a stretch of U.S. 41 along the Imperial River is a time machine that requires neither a hot tub nor a DeLorean. (Editor's Note - NOT about Everglades NP per say, but about a facility located within the region. It is interesting).
http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment...ed-list/1140923**********
Glacier Bay National Park News:
Glacier Bay National Park Ponders High-Tech Method for Important Salmon Study
How's the salmon population doing in Glacier Bay National Park?
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/201...almon-study7367**********
Lassen Volcanic National Park News:
Ranger-led snowshoe walks will again be offered at Lassen Volcanic National Park, beginning Dec. 26.
http://www.chicoer.com/news/ci_16896987**********
Rocky Mountain National Park News:
Wild Colorado: Colorado's lonely wolverine
Eric Odell, a Colorado Division of Wildlife species conservation coordinator, has been keeping tabs on an unlikely Colorado Rockies species — the wolverine. The wolverine populations in Colorado, so far as Odell knows?
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20101218/NEWS/101219825/1078&ParentProfile=1055Aiming for balance in Colorado elk population
Government scientists are grappling with unchecked elk herds infected with a mysterious disease. So as a third round of culling begins to try to reduce the size of the herd, National Park Service chief veterinarian Margaret Wild is taking the lead. The dart gun she fires from a federal truck finds an easy target – a female foraging in a snow-dusted meadow in the park west of Estes Park, which hosts the densest elk population in the Rocky Mountain region.
http://photos.denverpost.com/mediacenter/2010/12/aiming-for-balance-in-colorado-elk-population/**********
Yellowstone (and Grand Teton) National Park News:
Study looks at effect of mange on Yellowstone wolves
Paul Cross found out it takes about five people to hold down an adult gray wolf so you can shave it.
http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/article_0583b768-0b1a-11e0-93e1-001cc4c03286.html***********
