Glacier National Park News:
Going-to-the-Sun Road plow crews to be featured on Travel Channel
Forging through walls of snow on Glacier National Park's Going-to-the-Sun Road is a labor-intensive project every spring, but in this year of dense snowpack producers with the Travel Channel took notice.
http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-reg...l#ixzz1fh1AvTx7**********
Great Smoky Mountain National Park News:
Avid Smokies hiker seeks access to comments collected over park backcountry fee
Ever since Great Smoky Mountains National Park proposed a new user fee on backcountry camping, John Quillen has been on a crusade.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2011/dec/04/avid-smokies-hiker-seeks-access-to-comments-over/**********
Maine Woods National Park News:
Former Maine Senate president plots alternate route in examining national park plan
As a public debate over a northern Maine national park becomes politicized and drifts toward personalities, a former Maine Senate president is calling for a broader look at the future uses of the region.
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/f0c9b276336a4dcd83d3c52690be2da8/ME--National-Park-Proposal/**********
Misc. National Park News:
Questions surround proposed national park
When news came down that a chunk of West Virginia's mountain highlands might be considered for national park status, reactions ranged from giddy delight to horrified anguish.
http://wvgazette.com/Outdoors/201112030114Officials debate way forward on grizzly bear management
As the Rocky Mountain grizzly bear population grows, its managers have encountered something of a vision problem: They're not sure what success looks like.
http://missoulian.com/news/local/officia...l#ixzz1fh1LCsrI**********
Olympic National Park wilderness plan meeting draws crowd in Port AngelesA room intended to hold a crowd of 50 proved too small Saturday to accommodate the throng of people who came to voice their opinion on expanding wilderness areas around Olympic National Park.
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/articl...s-crowd-in-port**********
Theodore Roosevelt National Park News:
Theodore Roosevelt Park elk reduction program may end early
The technology doesn't lie.When a hand-held Global Positioning System unit says you've walked three miles, you've walked three miles.
http://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-an...l#ixzz1fh0XA0Vz**********
Yellowstone (and Grand Teton) National Park News:
Hunters and photographers critical of each other over Grand Teton National Park elk hunting
Along the Gros Ventre River, a snowstorm plasters the cottonwood trees white as Grand Teton National Park ranger Matt Wilber drives east to check on hunters participating in the park's elk reduction program.
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/bc0785b4d39c41d8a003358f29e892ed/WY--Elk-Hunt/State, Yellowstone complicit in buffalo slaughter (EDITORIAL)
In another sickening display of ignorance and aggression toward native wild buffalo, Montana's state and Yellowstone National Park officials, with Gov. Brian Schweitzer, are "anticipating" this year's buffalo slaughter. Admitting, it's because cattle ranchers don't want the grazing competition. Montana does not belong to cattle or ranchers.
http://billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/...l#ixzz1fh1ZxgB7*********
