Grand Canyon National Park News:
Fatal fall ends Canyon dream
Ioana "Yowana" Elise Hociota started hiking segments of the Grand Canyon some five years ago with her boyfriend, in borrowed boots, not minding the blisters they created.
http://azdailysun.com/news/local/fatal-f...l#ixzz1uDGbXCaB**********
Great Smoky Mountain National Park News:
New guidebook promotes “Family Fun in the Smokies”
Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s nonprofit partner, Great Smoky Mountains Association, has just released its newest book, Family Fun in the Smokies: A Family-friendly Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains by Katy Koontz. This colorful, 196-page guidebook is chock full of maps, games, illustrations, photographs, fun facts, “factivities,” and an authoritative text based on the author’s personal experiences and countless interviews with park rangers and other “insiders.”
http://theonefeather.com/2012/05/new-guidebook-promotes-family-fun-in-the-smokies/Passes to see fireflies at Great Smoky Mountains National Park are gone
The National Park Service has sold the last of its mandatory parking passes required to attend this year's Elkmont Firefly Event.
http://www.volunteertv.com/home/headline..._150426195.html**********
Yellowstone (and Grand Canyon) National Park News:
Yellowstone wolves are focus of new video highlighting research
The Yellowstone Park Foundation has released a short video showing how biologists capture, assess and collar Yellowstone wolves as part of ongoing research Yellowstone National Park.
http://www.yellowstonegate.com/2012/05/yellowstone-wolves-focus-of-video-highlighting-research-work/**********
Yosemite National Park News:
Yosemite park service scales back medical clinic's operations (Note beware annoying ad)Paula Susemichel and partner Linda Dailey traveled from Indianapolis to be amid the splendor of El Capitan, Half Dome and the other wonders of Yosemite National Park.
http://www.modbee.com/2012/05/06/2189566/new-mission-at-yosemite.html#storylink=cpyWatch Out for Bears In Yosemite National Park
If you're planning to make the trip to Yosemite National Park some time soon to see the spectacular waterfalls this season you might come across another exciting sight – a bear.
http://www.kmph.com/story/18160138/watch-out-for-bears-in-yosemite-national-park**********
