Odds and Ends From Around the National Park System
Items, some interesting, some perhaps not, from around the National Park System for a Monday morning's consideration.
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 28th, 2010 3:15am
Yellowstone National Park
Investigation Launched Into Grizzly Bear Mauling of Botanist Outside Yellowstone National Park
Why did a 70-year-old man head up into the Washakie Wilderness outside Yellowstone National Park knowing that wildlife biologists were trying to capture a grizzly bear? And why did federal authorities decide the bear that mauled the man to death have to be killed?
Would Year-Round Access To Old Faithful Compromise Yellowstone National Park's "Frontier"?
In Dances With Wolves, Lt. John Dunbar requests a posting on "the frontier" because he "wants to see the frontier before it's gone." It's not too difficult to put Yellowstone National Park, between the months of December and April, as being on the last frontier of the Lower 48.While it would be relatively easy to maintain wheeled-access to Old Faithful year-round, with apparently few environmental consequences, should we shrink what little "frontier" we have left in the National Park System?
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Wouldn't It Be Nice If the National Park Service Resumed the Distribution of Park Window Stickers?
Once upon a time, when you entered a national park you collected a distinctive window sticker that you could attach to your windshield. While you can buy versions of these stickers today, wouldn't it be great if the National Park Service handed them out when you entered a park?
Updated: Attempt To Trap Young Grizzly in Yellowstone National Park Leads To Its Death
A young grizzly bear that biologists were trying to capture in Yellowstone National Park because it looked unhealthy was accidentally killed when it tried to escape a trap that it had been lured into, park officials said Saturday.
Still No Resolution In Hunt For Missing Man in Yellowstone National Park
Search efforts are ongoing in Yellowstone National Park for an Oklahoma man who is thought to have vanished into the park's backcountry during the long Memorial Day weekend.
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 16th, 2010 2:15am
Land Deal Closes The Book On the New World Mine Proposed on Yellowstone National Park's Doorstep
Fourteen years after the Clinton White House stepped in to halt a gold mine from being built on the doorstep of Yellowstone National Park, a final piece of the settlement puzzle has been put into place with the purchase of nearly 800 acres of private lands.
Updated: Phone App Reviews: Chimani's Acadia and Nomad's Great Smoky Mountains
The number of national park phone applications recently grew by two, with Chimani's Acadia National Park and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park guide(s) recently sent to market by Nomad Mobile Guides. We recently test drove both. Here's what we found.
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 15th, 2010 8:11am
With A Growing Number of National Park Phone Apps, What Should You Expect?
Like it or not, we are indeed becoming a society tethered to our electronics. If anyone doubts that this is the "information age," know that recent surveys estimate that nearly 40 percent of the U.S. population carries a smart phone in their pocket or purse.
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 14th, 2010 2:15am
Circumstances Force National Park Service to Actively Manage Wildlife
Florida panther kittens dosed with dewormers. Black-footed ferrets inoculated against plague. Sterilizing horses at Cape Lookout National Seashore and elk at Rocky Mountain National Park. And now Yellowstone National Park bison that could be vaccinated against brucellosis via air gun.
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 10th, 2010 5:04am
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