Acadia National Park News
Loved and loathed, Roxanne Quimby remains determined (Note - I realize that this is ultimately different from Acadia, but given its proximity, I felt it was appropriate)
Roxanne Quimby has been labeled many things in the 27 years since she built a line of beeswax beauty products, sold the business for hundreds of millions of dollars and then turned her attention to Maine’s North Woods.
http://bangordailynews.com/2011/07/29/ou...ned/?ref=videos***********
Big Bend National Park News:
EPA again delays stricter smog rules
Industry calls new limits too costly for economy
Industry and business groups are making a last-minute push to persuade the Obama administration to drop proposed limits for ozone, a lung-irritating pollutant that has fouled Houston's air for decades.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7674593.html#ixzz1TWlWpWxcProtecting Dark Skies focus of bill
Thirty Big Bend area residents gathered at Davis Mountain State Park's Indian Lodge Monday evening to hear a presentation about House Bill 2857 (also known as the Dark Skies Ordinance) from McDonald Observatory's Bill Wren.
http://www.alpineavalanche.com/gallery/news/article_40d11ea2-b923-11e0-ba05-001cc4c002e0.html**********
Grand Canyon National Park News:
Grand Canyon: Iconic Landscape, Unprecedented Threat (Op Ed)
Few places inspire like the Grand Canyon.
Not only is it a geological wonder, it's also one of the most biologically diverse national parks in the United States -- home to more than 1,000 species of plants, 76 species of mammals, 299 bird species, 41 reptiles and amphibians and 16 species of fish.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kieran-suckling/grand-canyon-uranium-mining_b_912582.html**********
Misc. National Park News:
House GOP seeks big cuts in environmental rules (Op Ed)
Republicans have regularly called rigorous environmental protection laws anti-business and anti-growth, and they appear to be taking advantage of their greater numbers in the House of Representatives to try to roll them back, mostly by defunding them.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20084533-503544.html**********
Rocky Mountain National park News:
Crews Still Plowing RMNP Road
Officials Hope To Open Old Fall River Road This Weekend
It's almost August, but crews are still plowing a road in Rocky Mountain National Park trying to clear it for visitors.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/28694475/detail.html**********
Sequoia National Park News:
Fire in Sequoia National Forest Sends Smoke Into Reno
SEQUOIA NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. (AP) - Fire crews are managing a
wildfire in Sequoia National Forest as an ecological burn as the
blaze burns in a remote area of the forest, and sends smoke carried by wind into northern Nevada, blanketing our sky.
http://www.kolotv.com/news/headlines/Control_Burn_in_Seq_126353503.html?ref=503**********
Yellowstone National Park News:
EPA reviews oil on Yellowstone River
Less than 3 percent of the observed sections of the Yellowstone River in Montana downstream from a pipeline break are heavily affected by oil, the EPA said.
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-.../#ixzz1TWlndJveTourism numbers down at Yellowstone NP
Numbers show that not as many tourists headed to Yellowstone National Park in June, but the numbers are still on pace for one of the highest visitor numbers for this year.
http://www.kbzk.com/news/tourism-numbers-down-at-yellowstone-np/Small lightning-caused fire ignites in Yellowstone
A small lightning-caused fire has been found burning in Yellowstone National Park several miles southeast of Gibbon Falls.
http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-an...l#ixzz1TWlywWwi**********
Yosemite National Park News:
Yosemite's hidden vistas
Ah, the sounds of Yosemite Valley. Birds tweeting. Waterfalls crashing. Chain saws whirring?
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/07/28/2334666/yosemites-hidden-vistas.html#ixzz1TWlIkVtO**********
