Safety
November 2, 2009, 3:45 pm
According to research published in the International Journal of Wildland Fire,
Yosemite is likely to see about a 20% increase in both the number of
fires and the area of land which burns at high intensity, from
2020-2049.Read more...
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October 26, 2009, 2:36 pm
With the general rifle season opening on Sunday for big game
across Montana, state and federal agencies are urging hunters to be
bear aware.
Yellowstone National Park, the Forest Service and Montana Fish,
Wildlife and Parks each issued the same statement urging people to
be cautious during this time of year, when black and grizzly bears
are actively feeding before denning for the winter.
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October 21, 2009, 2:51 pm
Weekend vacationers, hunters and traveling tourists be forewarned: Road closure season is here. Several
popular high-elevation routes in Rocky Mountain National Park and
Roosevelt National Forest are now closed off for the season.In Rocky Mountain National Park, Fall River Road is gated off for the season, park spokeswoman Kyle Patterson said.
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October 21, 2009, 2:05 pm
Park rangers say two popular
routes through Yosemite National Park are closed for the second time
this month because of snow and icy weather. Tioga Road, the highest elevation route through the Sierra Nevada, closed Monday to all traffic. Glacier
Point Road, one of the park's popular sightseeing paths, is also closed
as a storm passes through the region. The two scenic roads also closed
due to snowfall in the first week of October, and rangers are
evaluating whether they will open again this season.
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October 20, 2009, 1:46 pm
The ripest recipe for trouble in a national
park? Young men hiking on a weekend who make a bad decision or two and
end up hurt, exhausted or lost.
On average, 11 search-and-rescue operations are
launched in national parks every day. While expenses average around
$900, the price can easily jump into the thousands of dollars,
according to a new analysis of search-and-rescue operations over 15
years.
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October 20, 2009, 1:40 pm
The season is definitely changing at Yosemite National Park, where the Half Dome cables have been removed for the season, and where snow and ice are causing temporary road closures.
The cables, which enable hikers to summit the majestic granite dome,
are taken down each fall and replaced in the spring. Hikers are
strongly cautioned against attempting to scale Half Dome while the
cables are down.
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October 19, 2009, 4:29 pm
This just in: Bears (at least, Yosemite National Park's black bears) view your minivan as one big, delicious pic-a-nic basket. A new report in the Journal of Mammalogy has the details of data collected on bear-related vehicle break-ins -- more than 900 of them -- between 2001 and 2007 at Yosemite. Researchers broke the incidents down by vehicle type, comparing the break-in data with available statistics on the types of vehicles that entered the park.
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October 19, 2009, 3:30 pm
The National Park Service has approved a plan to
restrict snowmobile numbers in Yellowstone National Park to less
than half of last winter's limit.
The park on Thursday announced daily limits that will allow up
to 318 snowmobiles and up to 78 snowcoaches per day in the park for
the next two winter seasons.
The park has allowed up to 720 snowmobiles a day into the park
over the past five winters, but actual use has been far less.
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October 19, 2009, 3:14 pm
An ultralight-plane crash sent a man to the hospital with broken
bones after he spent the night in Zion National Park Saturday night.
The
ultralight craft he was flying with his son crashed around 6:15 p.m.,
said park ranger Therese Picard. Neither their names nor hometowns were
released. The
father, who is in his 60s, broke his ankle and arm in the crash, and
the son sustained minor injuries, said Ron Terry, Zion National Park
public information officer.
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October 19, 2009, 3:12 pm
As wildlife advocates mourned the plane-crash death of Gordon Haber, the biologist who spent 40 years documenting the lives and societies of Denali's wolves, his pilot was recovering Friday in a burn center in Seattle after hiking 20 miles back to civilization.Details of the crash and rescue operation in the heart of Denali National Park emerged Friday, two days after the Cessna 185 used by Haber crashed in spruce trees near the East Fork of the Toklat River, the locale of one of the wolf packs Haber was studying.
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