Great Smoky Mountain National Park News:
Great Smoky Mountains National Park may ease elk monitoring in Cataloochee Valley
Park says growing herd doesn't need tight management
http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20100827/NEWS/308270039/Park-may-ease-monitoring-elk-Cataloochee-Valley?odyssey=nav|head
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Mount Rainier National Park News:
Going to the mountains
Sparked by good weather to start the year, Mount Rainier National Park in 2010 had its highest number of recreational visits since 2004. The park had 1.19 million recreational visits last year, up 3.5 percent from 2009.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/02/06/1532960/going-to-the-mountains-north-cascade.html**********
Outside the US/Canadian Park System:
Minister’s photo eye saves a tiger family
The Rajasthan Tourism Minister's new love for photography saved a family of tigers in Ranthambhore National Park this week. The observant Minister, who spotted blood in the hind portion of a tigress in the photographs she took during a visit to the park, got the animal operated upon for cleaning a wound infested with maggots. The Minister, Bina Kak, is now being lauded by the conservation community not for saving one tiger but a whole family of three.
http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/article1159860.ece*********
Yellowstone National Park News:
Plan to slaughter stray Yellowstone bison ignites furor
A plan to slaughter scores of buffalo that strayed from Yellowstone National Park has reignited a debate about the nation's last purebred herds.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/05/us-yellowstone-bison-idUSTRE7142CH20110205Yellowstone Set to Slaughter 400 Buffalo
Yellowstone National Park is supposed to be a safe haven for the last great remaining wild herd of Buffalo in the United States. However, the results of the unusually harsh and cruel winter weather conditions may ultimately result in hundreds of buffalo being slaughtered.
http://www.tinygreenbubble.com/animal-rights/item/1511-yellowstone-set-to-slaughter-400-buffaloWith Yellowstone's Bison, Why Aren't the Times A-Changin'? (Note: Editorial)
With 300 wild bison captured earlier this week and many of them now awaiting slaughter, Yellowstone National Park’s annual wildlife tragedy is well underway. Call me wishfully naïve, but I thought things would be different this year.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-skoglund/with-yellowstones-bison-w_b_818246.htmlSnowy season presents increase in snowmobile wrecks
Rescue personnel responded to several snowmobile wrecks in the backcountry during another popular weekend of snowmobiling in the West Yellowstone region.
http://www.westyellowstonenews.com/news/article_3780d83e-31eb-11e0-a854-001cc4c03286.htmlLight earthquake hits Yellowstone
A light earthquake has struck Yellowstone National Park.
http://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/articles/2011/02/06/news/state_news/news43.txt*********
