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Tiger Balm Tigers and elephants applaud expansion of Sumatra park		28 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 1:26 PM on 28 Aug 2008 Sumatra's Tesso Nilo National Park will be doubled in size in an effort to help out the endangered elephants and tigers that live there. Riau province, which contains the park, houses some 210 elephants (down from 1,250 just a quarter-century ago) and 192 tigers (down from 650 in that same time period). Sixty to 80 elephants and some 50 tigers are believed to reside in Tesso Nilo. The park also ha ...
Topics: deforestation, endangered species, habitat protection, Indonesia, national parks, news, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

The Grass Is Half Empty EPA and Florida sucking at Everglades cleanup, says judge		29 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 4:57 PM on 29 Jul 2008 Florida and the U.S. EPA have been skewered by a federal judge for their Everglades cleanup efforts (or rather, lack thereof). In 2003, Florida pushed back a deadline for reducing phosphorus pollution in the River of Grass from 2006 to 2016. By doing so, the state "violated its fundamental commitment and promise to protect the Everglades," U.S. District Judge Alan Gold ru ...
Topics: Florida, habitat protection, litigation, national parks, news, regulation, US EPA, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

The Hunter is a lonely heart Former GOP prez candidate left up the creek without a wildebeest	Kate Sheppard	25 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), one-time contender for the Republican presidential nomination, had the best of intentions for a trip to Africa. Having heard that there are 230,000 hungry refugees from Darfur currently residing in Chad, Hunter's staffers called the country's embassy and proposed that their boss come hunt wildebeest and distribute the meat to refugees. Photo: Chris Eason Problem? There aren't any wildebeest in Chad. And even if there w ...
Topics: Congress, Muckraker, national parks, news, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Pass the Sugar, Sugar Florida will buy out sugar company to restore Everglades		24 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 3:22 PM on 24 Jun 2008 Nearly 300 square miles of sugar plantation in the Everglades will once again become marsh, as Florida Gov. Charlie Crist announced Tuesday that the state will buy the land from U.S. Sugar Corp. If all goes to plan, the $1.75 billion deal may be the largest environmental restoration in the history of the United States. Environmentalists have long lamented the sugar industry's role in ...
Topics: agriculture, Florida, habitat protection, industrial ag, national parks, news, progress, wetlands (all these topics)

Is He Everglade to Be There McCain says he hearts Everglades, despite opposing bill with restoration funding		06 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 3:25 PM on 06 Jun 2008 Sen. John McCain swung through Florida last week, taking time for a boat tour of the Everglades on Friday. The Obama campaign promptly criticized McCain for his opposition last year to a water bill that included major funding for Everglades restoration. McCain said he would have supported a stand-alone Everglades bill, but the broader water bill was choc ...
Topics: Florida, habitat protection, John McCain, legislation, national parks, news, politics, presidential race 08, wetlands (all these topics)

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
Saturday is World Water Day, a time set aside by the U.N. during which member nations are encouraged to address the worldwide water crisis. This year's theme is the 'International Year of Sanitation' (sexy!), which is aimed at 'accelerat[ing] progress for 2.6 billion people worldwide who are without proper sanitation facilities.' For more on this topic, check out the Guardian Weekly's special supplement 'Every Drop Counts.' [PDF] But World Water Day is also mean ...
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
Bush won't slash subsidies for raise taxes on oil companies, but he's happy to raise taxes on hikers and campers. But I'm sure Grover Norquist will hold him accountable for this apostasy. Reeling from the high cost of fighting wildfires, federal land agencies have been imposing new fees and increasing existing ones at recreation sites across the West in an effort to raise tens of millions of dollars. Additionally, hundreds of marginally profitable campsites and ...
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
'Getting shot is just going to piss off a 500-pound grizzly bear.' -- George Durkee, director of the Ranger Lodge of Fraternal Order of Police, on why it doesn't make sense to allow visitors to carry loaded guns in national parks
Topics: national parks, wildlife (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
Grist's take on potential python proliferation is, of course, unsurpassable -- but if it were to be surpassed, it would be by this article in the San Francisco Chronicle. Gotta love a paper that gives its reporter some editorial leeway for humor. Some of my favorite tidbits: Biologists estimate 30,000 nonnative giant snakes live in the Everglades, perhaps more. Some have begun appearing in areas outside the park, alarming biologists and also people who don't car ...
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
The hunt for fuel: With minimal public notice and no formal environmental review, the Forest Service has approved a permit allowing a British mining company to explore for uranium just outside Grand Canyon National Park, less than three miles from a popular lookout over the canyon's southern rim. If the exploration finds rich uranium deposits, it could lead to the first mines near the canyon since the price of uranium ore plummeted nearly two decades ago. A sharp ...
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
Here's a fun game for campaign reporters: Ask Fred Thompson questions. The results are often hilarious: Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson seemed taken by surprise when asked Tuesday about oil drilling in the Everglades, apparently unaware it's been a major Florida issue. Before answering, he laughed at the question. 'Gosh, no one has told me that there's any major reserves in the Everglades, but maybe that's one of the things I need to learn whi ...
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
At the behest of the U.S. delegation, the U.N. World Heritage Committee is taking Everglades National Park off its list of endangered sites, against the advice of the committee's science advisors and the advice of the U.S. National Park Service. Who is the head of the U.S. delegation? Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior Todd Willens. Who is Todd Willens? Former legislative director for Rep. Dick Pombo, former policy director of the House Resources Committe ...
Topics: Florida, national parks, politics (all these topics)

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