Acadia National Park News:
Outdoors Dispatches
Acadia National Park is currently accepting applications for its Raptor Interpretation Internship.
http://www.pressherald.com/life/outdoors/outdoors-dispatches_2011-02-20.html**********
Denali National Park News:
Denali-area business leaders see a bright future for region
Note - Check towards bottom of page for info about Denali NP.
http://newsminer.com/bookmark/11519857-Denali-area-business-leaders-see-a-bright-future-for-region **********
Glacier National Park News:
Glacier officials want to repair fire lookout
Glacier National Park officials say an environmental assessment of a plan to stabilize the Heavens Peak Fire Lookout is available for public comment.
http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2011/feb/19/bc-mt-glacier-lookout-project/?features&travel**********
Grand Canyon National Park News:
Grand Canyon to be shielded from mining
The Obama administration has announced a draft plan to protect 1 million acres of public land around Grand Canyon National Park from new uranium mining. Conservationists and tribal leaders hailed the move, citing thousands of new mining claims threatening Grand Canyon's watersheds, fragile seeps and springs, American Indian sacred sites, critical wildlife habitat and the region's tourism-based economy.
http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20110220/NEWS01/102200332**********
Great Smoky Mountain National Park News:
Newfound Gap Road construction starts March 1
West Virginia native Steward Haugan's first visit to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was what he called, "memorable."
http://www.wbir.com/news/article/157976/2/Newfound-Gap-Road-construction-starts-March-1**********
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park News:
Emergency ops center dedicated at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Emergency crews will have a jump start on the next disaster to strike a national park across the Pacific.
http://www.hawaii247.com/2011/02/19/emer...-national-park/**********
Misc. National Park News:
No more Grand Canyons -- restricting national monuments (Editorial)
If legislation introduced in Congress last week were law a century ago, mines would have sprouted in the Grand Canyon, and the Olympic elk would have been shot for meat to the last animal.
http://www.seattlepi.com/connelly/435779_JOEL21.html?source=mypiDoing with a bit less at Rainier, Olympic?
Mount Rainier and Olympic national parks face slight decreases in their budgets under President Barack Obama's spending proposal for fiscal year 2012, while North Cascades National Park complex would see a significant increase.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/02/20/1552197/doing-with-a-bit-less-at-rainier.html**********
Shenandoah National Park News:
Wind fans fires, causes travel chaos
Dangerous winds spread brush fires and caused travel delays around the Washington region Saturday.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dr-grid...pid=dynamicleadFirefighters from across the country headed to Shenandoah National Park
125 firefighters from Virginia and across the United States are headed to Shenandoah National Park and Skyline Drive to battle a wildfire that has consumed between 800 and 1,000 acres thus far, according to an official with the Warren County, Va. Fire & Rescue Department.
http://wcrnews.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/...-national-park/**********
Yellowstone (and Grand Teton) National Park News:
Judge: Yellowstone bison slaughter can proceed
A federal judge on Feb. 14 denied a request from wildlife advocates to stop the planned slaughter of hundreds of wild bison from Yellowstone National Park that were captured as they migrated into Montana.
http://www.nativetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4951:judge-yellowstone-bison-slaughter-can-proceed&catid=56&Itemid=32
