Grand Canyon National Park News:
90,000 petition for bottle ban in Grand Canyon
By JENN SAVEDGE
More than 90,000 people across the country have joined a popular campaign on Change.org asking the National Park Service (NPS) to go ahead with plans to ban plastic water bottles in Grand Canyon National Park.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/12/05/2532308/90000-petition-for-bottle-ban.html#ixzz1fm393FqN**********
Great Smoky Mountain National Park News:
Great Smokies: 17,000 species and counting
An epic biodiversity project in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park plugs away without fanfare or applause.
http://www.mountainx.com/article/38110/Great-Smokies-17000-species-and-counting**********
Misc. National Park News:
Bear spray not carried in more than half 2011 grizzly incidents
Preliminary results show fewer than half of the people who came face-to-face with a grizzly in the Northern Rockies this year were carrying bear spray.
http://www.kpax.com/news/bear-spray-not-carried-in-more-than-half-2011-grizzly-incidents/**********
Yellowstone (and Grand Teton) National Park News:
No bison shipments within Montana
Gov. Brian Schweitzer said he will not allow any wild bison to be moved within Montana because a federal agency has raised concerns about potential disease transmissions – throwing into doubt a proposal to relocate 68 of the animals from Yellowstone National Park to two American Indian reservations.
http://www.nativetimes.com/news/environment/6475-schweitzer-no-bison-shipments-within-montanaGazette opinion: Let's stop wasting disease-free bison (Editorial)
Montana has been wasting a tremendous natural resource by barring wild bison from our state.
http://billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/...l#ixzz1fm2xbqgAYellowstone Park on track for winter opening December 15
Efforts remain on track for Yellowstone National Park to open for motorized oversnow travel as scheduled on December 15.
http://www.kbzk.com/news/yellowstone-park-on-track-for-winter-opening-december-15/Montana’s governor says bison can go to reservations
Montana’s governor said Monday he will not block the relocation of 68 bison to two American Indian reservations.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/nationa...position=recentState considering ways to fill quota for wolf hunt
Montana is down to a mostly single-species hunting season as game managers consider how to fill the state's 220-wolf quota by the end of 2011.
http://missoulian.com/news/local/state-c...l#ixzz1fm3kGIcC**********
Yosemite National Park News:
Officials Find Body of Third Hiker Swept Over Yosemite Waterfall
Officials on Monday identified a body found in the Merced River as one of three young people swept over a waterfall last summer in Yosemite National Park.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/05/off.../#ixzz1fm3GKawG**********
