Grand Canyon National Park News:
Flight noise reduction plan for Grand Canyon receives mixed reception
The National Park Service has released a draft, more than 20 years in the making, of potential plans to restore quiet to Grand Canyon National Park by reducing noise from aircraft that give tours and that bring visitors in and out.
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/arizona/politics/article_75449578-3021-11e0-8024-001cc4c002e0.html**********
Great Smoky Mountain National Park News:
Wildlife Experts Joining Calls Of Alarm Over White-Nose Syndrome In Bats
With traces of white-nose syndrome in bat colonies being found further and further west of the Northeast where it was first documented, more and more concern is being raised over the disease's potential to decimate bat species.
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/201...ndrome-bats7575**********
Jasper National Park News:
Jasper Nat'l Park lookout deck under the microscope
A proposed tourist attraction called the Glacier Discovery Walk is the centre of a fight between a travel company and environmentalists.
http://www.inews880.com/Channels/Reg/LocalNews/story.aspx?ID=1357498**********
Outside the US/Canadian Park System:
Protest against parading tiger's body
A week after foresters killed a man-eater near Corbett National Park, a protest is brewing against the killing and "the way the animal was paraded''. On Wednesday, wildlife activists and local guides' association wore black ribbons to mark their protest.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/...how/7421686.cmsExclusive: Tanzania Park 'Highway' to Remain Undeveloped
Researchers and conservationists around the world have been reacting with dismay to news that the Tanzanian government will forge ahead with plans to build a highway bisecting Serengeti National Park. But now the government says it will leave an existing dirt road within the park "untouched" while improving roads on either side of the fragile park that lead to the passage.
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/exclusive-tanzania-park-highway.html?ref=ra**********
Rocky Mountain National Park News:
RMNP aims to be 'greener' park by cutting energy use
Rocky Mountain National Park plans to cut its energy consumption to 30 percent below its 2003 levels by 2015 in an effort to become a "greener" park, National Park Service officials said Tuesday.
http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20110203/LOVELAND01/302030005***********
Yellowstone (and Grand Teton) National Park News:
Groups ask judge to stay killing of Yellowstone bison
Conservation groups asked a federal judge on Thursday to grant a stay of execution for hundreds of buffalo who strayed outside of Yellowstone National Park.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/04/us-yellowstone-buffalo-idUSTRE7130S120110204Yellowstone bison may be sent to slaughter
America's last genetically pure herd of bison representing the great American West may be sent to slaughter. Four hundred migrating buffalo were captured and penned Thursday on the northern boundaries where they had been wandering in search of food.
http://www.examiner.com/pet-rescue-in-national/yellowstone-bison-may-be-sent-to-slaughterYellowstone seeks input on improvements to Bechler area
Improved parking, utility upgrades and employee housing are some of the possibilities that will be considered by Yellowstone National Park staff as it crafts a plan for the area around the Bechler Ranger Station.
http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-an...7539216440.htmlPark bill wins round 2
A bill that would help preserve more than 1,400 acres of state school trust land in Grand Teton National Park passed second reading in the Wyoming House of Representatives on Thursday.
http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/article.php?art_id=6953**********
