Death Valley National Park News:
34,000-Year-Old Organisms Found Buried Alive!
It's a tale that has all the trappings of a cult 1960s sci-fi movie: Scientists bring back ancient salt crystals, dug up from deep below Death Valley for climate research. The sparkling crystals are carefully packed away until, years later, a young, unknown researcher takes a second look at the 34,000-year-old crystals and discovers, trapped inside, something strange. Something ... alive.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110113/sc_livescience/34000yearoldorganismsfoundburiedalive**********
Great Smoky Mountain National Park News:
Grant Will Help Blue Ridge Parkway Ranger Collect Oral Histories
One of the more interesting national park interpretive programs I've run across down through the years was a collection of oral histories that could be listened to in some homestead cabins in the Cataloochee area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/201...l-histories7459**********
Haleakala National Park News:
Weather closes parts of Haleakala National Park
Hazardous weather conditions Wednesday forced officials to close access to parts of Haleakala National Park on Maui until further notice.
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=13834790**********
Misc. National Park News:
Conservation biology: The end of the wild
Imagine Montana's Glacier National Park without glaciers; California's Joshua Tree National Park with no Joshua trees; or the state's Sequoia National Park with no sequoias. In 50 years' time, climate change will have altered some US parks so profoundly that their very names will be anachronisms.
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110112/full/469150a.html**********
Rocky Mountain National Park News:
Man falls 900 feet in national park, taken to hospital
A 55-year-old Chicago man who took a 900-foot tumbling fall while skiing this afternoon is undergoing treatment tonight at Medical Center of the Rockies, a park spokesman said.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_17079662National park rangers rescue backcountry skier
Rangers in Rocky Mountain National Park have rescued a 55-year-old Chicago man who tumbled about 900 feet down a mountain while backcountry skiing.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-co-parkrescue-colora,0,7601267.story
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Yellowstone (and Grand Teton) National Park News:
Famous Yellowstone elk herd suffers decline
An acclaimed elk herd in Yellowstone National Park took a major hit last year, with biologists saying almost one in four of the animals were lost, mainly to predators and hunters.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/12/AR2011011205555.htmlYellowstone-Area Wolf Was Poisoned: FWS
A female gray wolf from the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem's Mill Creek Pack was poisoned in 2009 with a banned substance, Compound 1080, when she wandered into Colorado back in 2009, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating.
http://www.yellowstoneinsider.com/20110113715/news/articles/yellowstone-wolf-was-poisoned-fws.php**********
