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For Specious Skies EPA plans to loosen air-quality rules near national parks		16 May 2008	News
Posted at 11:45 AM on 16 May 2008 Photo: Wolfgang Staudt Call us crazy, but rewriting the Clean Air Act to ease the way for new coal plants near national parks seems to fly in the face of that whole "clean air" thing. But sure enough, the U.S. EPA plans to make a change allowing the government to calculate the average annual emissions of power plants near parks and wilderness areas, instead of tracking (and po ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, jackassery, national parks, news, politics, regulation, US EPA (all these topics)

'Bout the Bullet DOI takes public comment on allowing loaded guns in national parks		01 May 2008	News
Posted at 2:50 PM on 01 May 2008 The Interior Department has officially proposed allowing concealed firearms into some national parks and wildlife refuges. State laws against carrying loaded guns into parks would supersede the new rule: thus, for example, visitors to Death Valley National Park could tote a gun in the Nevada portion of the park, but not on the California side. As expected, opinions vary on the ma ...
Topics: Department of Interior, legislation, national parks, news, politics (all these topics)

Happy Trails National parks will get spruced up		25 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 2:25 PM on 25 Apr 2008 The National Park Centennial Initiative has announced its first round of funding for various projects and programs in -- surprise! -- national parks. Seventy-six parks in 38 states will see a total $51 million in federal and privately donated funding. The projects will run the gamut of everything from hiking-shelter improvements to wildlife protection to forest restoration to education. The park-system centennial i ...
Topics: habitat protection, national parks, news (all these topics)

Put It in Parks Private land inside national parks under threat of development, report says		09 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 7:19 AM on 09 Apr 2008 Nearly 2 million acres of private land within the boundaries of U.S. national parks is at risk of being developed if it isn't purchased by the federal government soon, according to a report from the National Parks Conservation Association. Some 4.3 million acres of private land lie within park boundaries, 1.8 million acres of which are considered high priority purchases a ...
Topics: national parks, news, United States (all these topics)

Water, water everywhere, but ... World Water Day, Grand Canyon film highlight water crisis	Sarah van Schagen	21 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Arizona, green living, movies, national parks, water crisis (all these topics)

Where's Grover Norquist when you need him? Bush raises taxes on hikers and campers, mysteriously leaving logging companies alone	Glenn Hurowitz	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: George Bush, logging, national parks, politics (all these topics)

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)

Smell That Fresh Err National parks chock full o' chemicals, says study		27 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 5:08 PM on 27 Feb 2008 Our prized natural places are hardly pristine, according to a six-year federal study. Researchers looked at the air, water, soil, lichen, conifer needles, and fish in 20 national parks and monuments. They found a total of some 70 contaminants, from near as well as far, local pesticide residue mingling with mercury wafted in from overseas. At eight parks, fish were too full of chemicals to be ...
Topics: air pollution, national parks, news, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	27 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: wildlife, national parks (all these topics)

Well, Shoot Ban on loaded firearms in national parks may be lifted		26 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 2:14 PM on 26 Feb 2008 Photo: iStockphoto The Interior Department plans to revise regulations banning loaded guns in national parks, and park rangers and green groups are up in arms (figuratively, of course). Current rules, which require guns to be disarmed and stowed away within park boundaries, "are not unduly burdensome, but are limited, reasonable, and necessary," says the president of the National Parks ...
Topics: Department of Interior, legislation, national parks, news, politics (all these topics)

Hiss hiss hooray Reporter waxes poetic on pythons	Sarah K. Burkhalter	22 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Florida, national parks, wildlife (all these topics)

Elk and Their Ilk Elk populations getting out of control in some national parks		12 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 1:46 PM on 12 Feb 2008 Forget hungry, hungry hippos -- here come the hungry, hungry elk. Three national parks in Colorado and the Dakotas are awash in antlered gluttons, at some places more than twice what's considered a preferable population. "Willow and aspen stands are declining [and] that deprives other species of habitat they need," says a spokesperson for Colorado's Rocky Mountain National ...
Topics: Colorado, habitat protection, national parks, news, North Dakota, South Dakota, wildlife (all these topics)

Clean, safe nuclear power	David Roberts	07 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: energy, mining, national parks, nuclear power (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)

Knowing as little as possible: a candidate competition Thompson and Romney quibble over oil drilling in the Everglades	Brian Beutler	20 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: energy, Florida, Mitt Romney, national parks, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Watch Out for the Sugar, Sugar Everglades still polluted, says EPA analysis		20 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 2:57 PM on 20 Sep 2007 Pollution in the Everglades remains significant despite billions of dollars spent on cleaning and restoring the park over the last decade, according to new analysis from the U.S. EPA. On the bright side, erosion has stabilized and mercury levels in the tiny mosquitofish have dropped; on the, um, not-bright side, mercury levels still accumulate in higher-up-the-food-chain fish enough to r ...
Topics: Florida, national parks, news, toxics, US EPA (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)

Put It in Park Donations roll in for national parks' centennial projects		27 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Put It in Park Donations roll in for national parks' centennial projects The 100th anniversary of the National Park Service is a mere nine years away, and donations are rolling in to spruce up parks for the occasion. In a spending bill yet to be approved by Congress, Bush made funds available to match private giving; some $300 million has already been pledged by corporations, nonprofits, and visitors' groups. ...
Topics: national parks, news, politics, United States (all these topics)

Todd Willens and the Everglades Pombo's old hack buddy, still at it	David Roberts	01 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Florida, national parks, politics (all these topics)

One Swamp Forward, Two Swamps Back Everglades, stripped of U.N. endangered status, may see federal funding		01 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
One Swamp Forward, Two Swamps Back Everglades, stripped of U.N. endangered status, may see federal funding The Florida Everglades may get a budgetary boost from the U.S. government, a month after being removed from the U.N. World Heritage Committee's list of endangered sites. The nearly $2 billion is part of a $21 billion national water bill expected to be passed by Congress this wee ...
Topics: biodiversity, Congress, Florida, national parks, news, United Nations (all these topics)

A letter from the DOI Regarding Badlands National Park	Sarah K. Burkhalter	23 Jul 2007	Gristmill

Topics: national parks, South Dakota (all these topics)

Can't see the trees for the forest Park Service hacks down some trees in Pa.	Kate Sheppard	18 Jul 2007	Gristmill

Topics: deforestation, logging, national parks, Pennsylvania (all these topics)

It ain't natural What global warming could do to national parks	Kate Sheppard	17 Jul 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, climate change impacts, national parks (all these topics)

The Story of Us An interview with Tom Kiernan of the National Parks Conservation Association	Sarah van Schagen	17 Jul 2007	Main Dish
A moment of reflection at Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. Photo: Richard and Robin via flickr Every year, millions of Americans pack up their families and head out to visit one of America's national parks. My family was no different: I vividly recall the patchwork of reds, oranges, and yellows blanketing the Appalachian mountains as autumn made its big ent ...
Topics: biodiversity, climate, climate change impacts, environmental movement, national parks (all these topics)

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