Biscayne National Park News:
Biscayne National Park plans spark heated debate
At a public meeting, officials presented five options for park management, and then passionate comments started to fly.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/09/17/2412021/biscayne-national-park-plans-spark.html#ixzz1YQMalb4W**********
Glacier National Park News:
Visits drop at Glacier National Park
A portion of the popular Going-to-the-Sun Road will close this Monday, which is about the same time it closed last year, for construction and maintenance
http://www.kpax.com/news/visits-drop-at-glacier-national-park/**********
Maine Woods National Park News (I am posting this as it it were a real park) - Editorial
Is The Time Right For A "Maine Woods National Park"?
Twenty years before the first national park, and more than a century before the Wilderness Act, (Henry David Thoreau) asked, "Why should not we ...have our national preserves, where ... the bear and pather ... may still exist, and not be 'civilized' off the face of the earth?"
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2011/09/time-right-maine-woods-national-park8776Misc. National Park News:
House measure would expand Homeland Security powers, waive environmental laws
A controversial bill that would give the Department of Homeland Security unprecedented authority over federal lands within 100 miles of the United States' border is making its way through Congress.
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20110919/NEWS01/109190303/House-measure-would-expand-Homeland-Security-powers-waive-environmental-laws?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Frontpage|s
Take a hike, give back: Free entry to national parks for National Public Lands Day
Grand Canyon, Yosemite and more than 100 other national parks that normally charge entry fees will waive them this Saturday, Sept. 24 as part of National Public Lands Day.
http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/...ds-day/547764/1**********
Outside the US/Canadian Park System:
Fears national park could be encircled by wind farms
OPPOSITION is gathering to the prospect of three wind farms being given the go-ahead around the north western edge of Scotland’s largest national park.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-...farms-1.1124450Ranipur sanctuary may turn into national park
The government could be mulling to make Ranipur Wildlife Sanctuary into a national park. The State Wildlife Board, which met on Saturday, discussed the proposal and decided to set up a committee to suggest ways to convert the sanctuary into a national park.
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes....rest-department***********
Pacific Rim National Park News:
Cougar destroyed in Pacific Rim National Park
The animal had been prowling homes and visitors
Conservation officers with Parks Canada have killed a cougar in Pacific Rim National Park.
http://www.news1130.com/news/local/article/278568--cougar-destroyed-in-pacific-rim-national-park**********
Yellowstone (and Grand Teton) National Park News:
Grizzly bear wounded by hunters in Montana bites back, in fatal attack
A bear hunter was killed by a wounded grizzly after trying to lure it away from another hunter — part of the group that shot the bear — on the Idaho-Montana border.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/new...r-idaho-montana
