Glacier National Park News:
Glacier plows dig through new snow
After being turned back by foul weather on Wednesday, Glacier National Park plow crews returned to Logan Pass Thursday to continue working on the Big Drift and clearing snow from the visitor center parking lot.
http://www.dailyinterlake.com/news/local_montana/article_b7919bf0-b118-11e1-a5a2-0019bb2963f4.html*********
Great Smoky Mountain National Park News:
Blue Ridge Parkway mowing resumes with limitations
Parkway grass-cutting still not at full speed
Grass-cutting is getting under way again on area national park land following a fatal mowing accident, but mowing will remain limited on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20120608/NEWS01/306080037/National-park-mowing-resumes?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Frontpage|p
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Joshua Tree National Park News:
Park rangers find camper dead in CA's Joshua Tree
Park rangers say they've found the body of a missing 41-year-old camper from Canada in California's Joshua Tree National Park.
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/07/4547115/park-rangers-find-camper-dead.html#storylink=cpy**********
Theodore Roosevelt National Park News:
Planned mine threatens quiet of ND Roosevelt ranch
The site of the Elkhorn Ranch in the badlands of North Dakota looks and feels much as it did when Theodore Roosevelt retreated there to raise cattle following the deaths of his wife and mother in 1884.
http://online.wsj.com/article/AP5e757bdc47524c9e824adc6833c06d87.html**********
Yellowstone (and Grand Teton) National Park News:
Grand Teton rangers use helicopter to rescue injured hiker on Albright Peak
An injured hiker climbing Albright Peak in Grand Teton National Park was flown out by a helicopter Wednesday after she received medical assistance from park rangers.
http://www.yellowstonegate.com/2012/06/g...-albright-peak/Bison back in Yellowstone after prolonged roundup
Montana livestock officials have finished hazing several hundred bison back into Yellowstone National Park to keep the wild animals from transmitting disease to cattle.
http://www.kulr8.com/news/state/158127575.htmlJudge stops timber sale in lynx habitat near Yellowstone Park
A federal judge has halted a 7,000-acre eastern Idaho logging project in potential lynx habitat near Yellowstone National Park after finding the U.S. Forest Service failed to follow federal laws intended to safeguard the environment.
http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-reg...1a4bcf887a.html**********
