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Headline	Author	Published	Section
A River Runs Through It Grand Canyon flood supported by feds, criticized by park officials		04 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 3:08 PM on 04 Mar 2008 Federal flood control managers will let loose a rush of water through the Grand Canyon on Wednesday, which the feds say is necessary to restore sand banks and side pools, and National Park Service officials say is unnecessary, aimed at pleasing hydropower companies, and could irreparably destroy the habitat it's meant to restore. From the Archives ...
Topics: energy, habitat protection, hydropower, National Park Service, national parks, news (all these topics)

Flying By Nitrogen Ammonium drifts into national parks		28 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 4:24 PM on 28 Dec 2007 You may not be able to smell cow poop in Yellowstone, Glacier, and Rocky Mountain National Parks, but the air there has become increasingly contaminated with nitrogen compound ammonium, says a recent report from the National Park Service. Possibly originating in concentrated animal feeding operations, ammonium in the three parks -- as well as six other parks in Arizona, Idaho, South Dakota, and Utah -- was m ...
Topics: agriculture, air pollution, industrial ag, National Park Service, national parks, news (all these topics)

Mo' Mobile New National Park Service rules allow 540 snowmobiles a day into Yellowstone		25 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 3:05 PM on 25 Sep 2007 National Park Service studies have shown that allowing 250 snowmobiles a day into Yellowstone National Park causes ecosystem damage and noise pollution. So with new rules effective starting winter 2008, the agency logically will allow 540 snowmobiles a day into the park, down from an original suggestion of 720. The NPS followed through on its intention to disregard public opi ...
Topics: National Park Service, national parks, news (all these topics)

Your Opinion Is Wrong National Park Service may ignore public opinion on snowmobiles in parks		04 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 5:08 PM on 04 Sep 2007 Speaking of things we've been over and over, there's the issue of snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park. (It's another controversy Grist has covered since the early days while managing to not repeat a headline. Can we have a medal? Maybe a cookie?) Enough with the snowmobiles already? Not bloody likely! Today brings the news that 73 percent of the 122,190 public comm ...
Topics: National Park Service, national parks, news (all these topics)

Sweet, Now They Can Clean the Bathrooms Bush 2008 budget proposal contains big bucks for national parks		06 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Sweet, Now They Can Clean the Bathrooms Bush 2008 budget proposal contains big bucks for national parks With the National Park Service centennial looming in 2016, President Bush has proposed a 2008 budget boost that's making park advocates swoon. It would add $230 million to the 2007 park funding request and $100 million more each year for 10 years, making an additional $100 million available annually to match p ...
Topics: National Park Service, national parks, news (all these topics)

The Triple Threat New plan would nearly triple Yellowstone daily snowmobile limit		05 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
The Triple Threat New plan would nearly triple Yellowstone daily snowmobile limit Gentlemen, stroke your engines: The National Park Service has issued a draft plan that would nearly triple the number of snowmobiles allowed into Yellowstone National Park each day, from 250 to 720. While the limit is lower than the average number entering the park daily before the Clinton administration put th ...
Topics: National Park Service, national parks, news, outdoor recreation (all these topics)

Off-Off-Road New National Park Service guidelines will emphasize conservation		31 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Off-Off-Road New National Park Service guidelines will emphasize conservation Today, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne will announce new National Park Service management guidelines that emphasize ... wait for it ... conservation. Wha-huh? The new regulations more or less disregard revisions proposed a year ago under previous Interior Secretary Gale Norton that would have expanded motori ...
Topics: Department of Interior, National Park Service, national parks, news (all these topics)

So Much for Our Plans to Get Chip on Rushmore NPS won't loosen ad guidelines; Yellowstone contemplates wireless		03 May 2006	Daily Grist
So Much for Our Plans to Get Chip on Rushmore NPS won't loosen ad guidelines; Yellowstone contemplates wireless A National Park Service proposal to accept money from tobacco and alcohol companies and engrave donor names on benches and bricks was shot down when new marketing guidelines were issued Monday. Public comment had been highly critical of the proposal. "We give the Park Service significant credit fo ...
Topics: National Park Service, national parks, news (all these topics)

Jumping the Park Bush admin tells national parks to operate at 20 percent below budget		18 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Jumping the Park Bush admin tells national parks to operate at 20 percent below budget You know what the problem with America's national parks is? Profligacy. So says the Bush administration, which has ordered the parks to demonstrate that they can function with 80 percent of their current operating budgets. Bush is also proposing to cut about $100 million from the national parks' current $2.1 billion budget nex ...
Topics: National Park Service, national parks, news (all these topics)

Dopey's Choice Pombo proposes selling off parks to make point about Arctic Refuge		26 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Dopey's Choice Pombo proposes selling off parks to make point about Arctic Refuge A draft bill being circulated by Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Calif.), chair of the House Resources Committee, advocates selling 15 national preserves, historic sites, and monuments to help shrink the federal budget deficit. The proposal also recommends selling ads on National Park Service brochur ...
Topics: Arctic, mining and drilling, National Park Service, national parks, news, politics (all these topics)

Gale Polish Norton has a gay old time snowmobiling in Yellowstone		17 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Gale Polish Norton has a gay old time snowmobiling in Yellowstone The debate over snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park has taken a decidedly Potemkin turn. This week, Interior Secretary Gale Norton visited the park to give the vehicles a personal endorsement, fleecing up for a three-hour ride through sub-zero temperatures. Though two National Park Service environmental assessments have ...
Topics: National Park Service, national parks, news, outdoor recreation (all these topics)

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