12/10/13
Denali:
Part of Denali open to snowmachines
The south side of Denali National Park and Preserve is open to snowmachines, the National Park Service announced Monday.
http://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news...1a4bcf6878.html**********
Everglades:
Eleven pilot whales from Everglades stranding found dead in Florida Keys
Eleven of the short-finned pilot whales that survived an original stranding a week ago along a remote beach in Everglades National Park swam more than 70 miles only to die just feet apart from each other on another remote beach in the lower Florida Keys.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/12/09/3808627/eleven-pilot-whales-from-everglades.html**********
Great Smoky:
Smokies national park to get acting superintendent
Great Smoky Mountains National Park comprises 521,000 acres in North Carolina and Tennessee and gets twice as many visitors as the next most popular park, the Grand Canyon.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/09/great-smoky-mountains-national-park/3924159/**********
Misc. National Park News:
Endangered status of grizzlies on the line
A conference of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee this week will determine the political status of Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bears.
http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/news/envir...2027d3fce6.htmlPhotography In The National Parks: Capturing Winter In Our National Parks
Visiting typically cold and snowy winter parks means capturing a clean, icy beauty with clarity of resolution in your landscape photography. A trip to warmer national parks such as Biscayne or Death Valley won’t yield any “icy beauty” but there will be a kaleidoscope of color ranging from deeply-saturated green vegetation to sugar-white sand beaches and clear blue saltwater to sinuous light-golden sand dunes towering overhead.
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/201...onal-parks24362**********
Rocky Mountain:
Deep freeze in Colorado can't stop beetle threat (BEWARE ANNOYING AD)
Experts say Colorado's plunge into a deep freeze is too little and too late to disrupt the population of the destructive pine beetle.
http://gazette.com/deep-freeze-in-colorado-cant-stop-beetle-threat/article/1510706**********
Yellowstone:
NPS extends public comment period on utility plan
The National Park Service has given the public more time to comment on a plan to improve the electrical power distribution system in Yellowstone National Park.
http://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/news/wyoming/article_b9eb1b3c-606d-11e3-9643-001a4bcf6878.html**********
