Denali National Park News:
2012 Artists-in-Residence Announced
Three visual artists and three writers were selected from over 300 applicants to participate in this year's Artist-in-Residence program at Denali National Park and Preserve. Deborah Bouchette, Trine Bumiller, Kim Heacox, Marybeth Holleman, Rika Mouw, and Linda Schandelmeir will each have the opportunity to experience and be inspired by the park during summer 2012. They will stay at the historic East Fork cabin, where they can look out onto the braided channels of the East Fork River, multi-colored rock formations of Polychrome Mountain, and the snow-capped peaks of the Alaska Range.
http://www.nps.gov/dena/parknews/2012-artists-in-residence.htm
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Glacier National Park News:
Glacier National Park Fund Underwrites 14 Projects In Glacier National Park
Trail work, citizen science, wildlife research, and studying the stars above are some of the 14 projects that the Glacier National Park Fund is underwriting in the park in the coming year.
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/201...tional-park9310
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Great Smoky Mountain National Park News:
Visits to Smokies remain barely above 9 million
A surge in December traffic in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park kept visits above 9 million for 2011, but by a scant margin.
http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20120119/NEWS01/301190065/1001/NEWS
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Yellowstone (and Grand Teton) National Park News:
Montana wildlife commission tentatively approves using hunters to kill stray Yellowstone bison
Montana officials gave their initial approval Thursday to a plan that would let hunters kill bison that stray beyond designated areas north of Yellowstone National Park and from the Fort Peck and Fort Belknap Indian reservations.
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/d5ba5acbf8d343e2a90503a0a3bd9657/MT--Bison-Hunts/