12/20/12

Crater Lake National Park News:
Crater Lake National Park, Mt. Bachelor offer naturalist-led snowshoe tours
Snowshoeing is one of the easiest ways to enjoy winter, especially when you go on a national park or national forest guided tour with a trained ranger or naturalist volunteer.
http://blog.oregonlive.com/terryrichard/2012/12/crater_lake_mt_bachelor_offer.html
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Glacier National Park News:
Glacier Fund Disburses Grants To Organizations For Projects In Glacier National Park
A total of $100,000 from the Glacier Fund has been disbursed to nine organizations for 2013 projects in Glacier National Park that range from trail work to astronomy programs.
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/201...ional-park22587
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Olympic National Park News:
Massive dock washes ashore on national park beach
A massive dock, possibly debris from the March 2011 tsunami that struck Japan, has washed ashore in Washington state's Olympic National Park.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/19/us/washington-tsunami-dock/index.html
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Yellowstone National Park News:
Groups: create wolf buffer zone around Yellowstone
A conservation group is calling on state and federal officials to create no-shooting zones around Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks to reduce the killing of wolves.
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/science/ar...p#ixzz2FdELqQEA
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