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THE
NPS MORNING REPORT
Sent to all NPS personnel across the country, you can track the
day to day incidents, rescues, personnel changes, this day in park
history, and the best tracking anywhere of all park related legislation
before Congress
NPS
PRESS RELEASES
Here's the official party line as written by the NPS Press people
for the general media.
NPCA
PRESS RELEASES
The National Parks Conservation Association puts out a lot of press
releases in their role as watchdogs of the parks and you can read
them as they're NPCA REPORTS http://www.npca.org/readaboutit/parksreports.html
The NPCA publishes some of the most authoritative and best researched
reports on current park issues anywhere and they post them all right
here. The newest, "A ground-breaking study on the noise impacts
of snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park."
YAHOO
NEWS ALERTS
If you sign up for Yahoo News Alerts for National Park news you
can get any news story from Associated Press and Reuters mentioning
National Parks delivered right to your email box. All you have to
do is type in "national parks" (including the quote marks) in the
box marked "Must Contain"
ENVIRONMENTAL
NEWS NETWORK
Since 1993, the Environmental News Network has been working to educate
the world about environmental issues facing our Earth. They began
as a monthly print publication, called Environmental News Briefing,
and two years later discovered the Internet as an effective means
of reaching a broader, more diverse audience. They do a great job
of covering the American National Parks as well as parks around
the world, state parks, city parks and wilderness wherever it occurs.
THE
THIN GREEN LINE
Adam Werbach's groundbreaking TV show has a great web site that
offers a strong independent view of the news. The Thin Green Line
is a provocative and proactive environmental magazine series that
explores the day's most incendiary, important and inspirational
(not to mention overlooked) environmental issues by examining the
personal lives of the individuals who are fighting the frontline
battles to save the planet from destruction. At a time when the
earth is at a crossroads, these individuals are the thin green line.
Check out their web site and watch the show.
SIERRA
CLUB NEWS
Courtesty of The Thin Green Line comes the Sierra Club's news reports.
THE
NPS REFERENCE DESK
This is one of our favorite insider sites because it has all the
most informative reports you might want to find. Things like the:
NPS People and Places Directory (contact info for all employees),
the Public Use statistics, and the world famous NPS organization
chart.
THE
YELLOWSTONE NET NEWSPAPER
All the Yellowstone News every day.
THE
YOSEMITE ASSOCIATION NEWSROOM
Great coverage of Yosemite, with special reports and road info.
Our favorite bonus - Cartoonist Phil Frank takes his aberrant cast
of characters to Yosemite often in his daily cartoon from the San
Francisco Chronicle YA features more than 200 of these cartoons
in our new book, "Fur and Loafing in Yosemite."
GRAND
CANYON NEWS
The Grand Canyon News comes from Williams a
newspaper in Arizona and gives you some great features on the Grand
Canyon.
GRAND
TETON NEWS FROM JACKSON HOLE NET
The Jackson Hole Net provides visitor information for Jackson Hole,
Wyoming and the Yellowstone and Grand Teton regions including lodging,
skiing, snowmobiling, horseback riding, fly fishing, whitewater
rafting, mountain biking, rodeo, wildlife tours, and other mountain
activities.
GREAT
SMOKY MOUNTAINS NEWS
Straight from the Knoxville News Sentinel this site is incredibly
thorough and well laid-out.
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