Acadia National Park News:
What Maine transportation project would spur the most growth? Group says I-395/Route 9 link (See number 10)
A new highway linking I-395 and Route 9 in Greater Bangor tops a national nonprofit group’s list of 50 transportation projects most needed to spur economic growth in Maine.
http://bangordailynews.com/2011/12/15/bu...ink/?ref=latest**********
Big Bend National Park News:
Could the Texas Mexico Border be Safer Than You Think? 12/14/11
Several big changes are coming to the border when it comes to security and travel.
http://www.cbs7kosa.com/news/details.asp?ID=31107**********
Everglades National Park News:
Everglades draft plan gets major reworking
A new Everglades National Park management plan that could add boating rules to Florida Bay likely will spend most of the coming year being reworked, a park planner says.
http://www.keysnet.com/2011/12/14/405007/everglades-draft-plan-gets-major.html**********
Great Smoky Mountain National Park News:
National Park hosts holiday homecoming
Great Smoky Mountains National Park will host a Holiday Homecoming at the new Oconaluftee Visitor Center Dec. 17.
http://www.smokymountainnews.com/news/item/5782-national-park-hosts-holiday-homecoming**********
Maine Woods National Park News:
Great Northern Paper president says mills, national park can co-exist
The president of Great Northern Paper Co. says a national park proposal by conservationist Roxanne Quimby doesn't threaten the supply of wood for the mills in Millinocket and East Millinocket.
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/66050a65706f473687a1ebd8684678e7/ME--Quimby-National-Park/**********
Misc. National Park News:
NPS Director Jarvis Allows Parks To Ban Disposable Plastic Bottles
Those seemingly ubiquitous disposable plastic bottles, the ones that generated a storm of controversy over their proposed ban at Grand Canyon National Park, may now be banned by park superintendents nationwide.
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/201...tic-bottles9180Supporters Of a Mount St. Helens National Park Want National Park Service To Study That Possibility
Another request has been made on Congress to direct the National Park Service to study the possibility of transferring Mount St. Helens from the U.S. Forest Service so it can be designated a national park.
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/201...possibility9178**********
Yellowstone (and Grand Teton) National Park News:
Study shows elevated lead in grizzly bears
Researchers can’t blame bullet fragments in gut piles, don’t see immediate threat to individual bears.
http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/article.php?art_id=8033AP Exclusive: Colo., SD eyed for Yellowstone bison
For the first time in decades, the federal government is considering moving bison captured leaving Yellowstone National Park to public lands in Colorado, South Dakota and elsewhere as part of efforts to curb periodic slaughters of the animals.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/arti...376c6094daadc04Badlands eyed for Yellowstone bison
The Badlands National Park could become the home of a controversial herd of Yellowstone National Park bison.
http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/badland...l#ixzz1gdR1a2GABriefs: White House says Obama will sign revised defense bill
The White House withdrew its threat to veto a $662 billion defense bill Wednesday after lawmakers revised it to address President Barack Obama's concerns some measures hindered his administration's ability to use all its resources to fight terrorism.
http://www.detnews.com/article/20111215/...ed-defense-bill**********
