12/01/2011

Big Bend National Park News:
Wild burros wreak havoc on Texas ecology
To the residents of this West Texas city, burros are friendly, intelligent animals that make good pets and are engrained in this country's history...To state park officials, they're a destructive, invasive menace that cross over from Mexico with disease....
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/stor...cies/51515990/1
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Bryce Canyon National Park News:
BLM holds first meeting to answer questions on proposed mine expansion
The Bureau of Land Management on Tuesday night held its first open house to answer questions from the public about the proposed expansion of the only strip mine in Utah.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53016552-78/mine-expansion-town-alton.html.csp
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Glacier National Park News:
Group warns against Park Service cuts
Glacier National Park could see a very lean budget in 2013, the National Park Conservation Association warned last week. The parks advocacy group has more than 300,000 members.
http://www.flatheadnewsgroup.com/hungryhorsenews/article_590192ac-1b68-11e1-9514-001cc4c03286.html
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Great Smoky Mountain National Park News:
Hemlock tree spraying to wind up today
Cades Cove Loop Road in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will be closed to vehicles for part of today to allow trees to be treated for hemlock woolly adelgids.
http://www.thedailytimes.com/Local_News/story/Hemlock-tree-spraying-to-wind-up-today-id-018235

Greg Johnson: Products bill could hurt Smokies (EDITORIAL)
Protectionism masquerading as patriotism is no new shtick, but union-backed legislation offered by Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., could cause harm to the most American of institutions, our national parks. Besides ignoring the reality of a global economy, Israel's bill could cost the Great Smoky Mountains National Park big, big bucks.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2011/nov/30/greg-johnson-products-bill-could-hurt-smokies/
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Misc. National Park News:
Strategies to prevent bear-human conflicts work, but aren't being used
The death of Brian Matayoshi in a grizzly bear charge last summer was a classic conundrum for the people who work toward the day bears and humans can share the northern Rocky Mountains.
http://missoulian.com/news/local/strateg...l#ixzz1fJ7fEIhN

Grizzly Bear Experts Meet In Missoula
This has been a record year for grizzly encounters. Grizzlies killed two people in Yellowstone National Park this past summer. Conflicts between landowners and bears are growing. But so are pressures on the bear's habitat.
http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/29893181/detail.html

National Park Service Falls in "Best Places To Work" Rankings
While the Park Service stood 139th among federal agencies in the 2010 rankings, the latest accounting shows the agency has slipped to 163rd out of 240 agencies.
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/201...rk-rankings9091

NPS to study whether parts of Monongahela National Forest should be made national park
Two West Virginia state parks and other lands within the Monongahela National Forest could become a national park.
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/b5d93313f23a489f89e2d6f1c30df36c/WV--Park-Study/
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Yellowstone (and Grand Teton) National Park News:
FWP recommends relocating 68 quarantined Yellowstone bison to 2 Indian reservations
Montana wildlife officials on Wednesday said they will recommend the relocation of 68 quarantined Yellowstone National Park bison to two Indian reservations after running into strong opposition by ranchers and landowners to proposals to move the animals to other parts of the state.
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/f56fb27cf39947b3891ebb40f215cf89/MT--Bison-Relocation/

Grizzly family squabbles over bison carcass in park
Famous bears once again inspire wonder.
A bison carcass could be causing some family strife among famous grizzlies in Grand Teton National Park, observers say.
http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/article.php?art_id=7988
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Yosemite National Park News:
Man walks tightrope 3,000 feet above ground at Yosemite National Park
For one run, daredevil removed his safety rope
Here’s one way to take in the sights at Yosemite National Park – walk a tightrope rigged at a dizzying 3,000 feet above the ground, without a safety harness.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national...6#ixzz1fJ6Vi15r
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