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It ain't natural What global warming could do to national parks	Kate Sheppard	17 Jul 2007	Gristmill
The National Parks Conservation Association released a new report last week, 'Unnatural Disaster' (PDF), which explores the impact of global warming on national parks, and as you'd expect, the news is pretty grim. From the intro: The gradual, accelerated warming of our planet will have disastrous consequences for America's national parks. Glaciers in the national parks of Alaska as well as North Cascades and Mount Rainier National Parks will continue to disappear; Jos ...
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)

The Dark Lord at work Vader, Cheney, same same	JMG	29 Jun 2007	Gristmill
The brilliant series of pieces on Dick (Vader) Cheney continues with the latest installment about destroying salmon runs for partisan purposes, making the western U.S. look like a pincushion punctured with drilling rigs, and unleashing the hounds of hell (snowmobiles) throughout Yosemite. Dick Cheney -- truly an execrable almost-human being.
Topics: habitat loss, national parks, oil and gas drilling (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)

Hey, We Made a Boo-Boo Yellowstone grizzlies may lose protections, while also losing food source		31 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Hey, We Made a Boo-Boo Yellowstone grizzlies may lose protections, while also losing food source What do beetles, pine trees, grizzly bears, and global warming have in common? Check it: the U.S. plans to lift Endangered Species Act protections for Yellowstone-area grizzlies. But that move may be premature. Enter: high-altitude whitebark pines, the seeds of which are Yellowstone bears' main food source in late summer and fall ...
Topics: national parks, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Lutsel Make a Deal Canadian government, Natives agree to create massive national park		16 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Lutsel Make a Deal Canadian government, Natives agree to create massive national park The Canadian government and a tiny Native tribe have agreed to work together to create an 8.3 million acre national park in the Northwest Territories. Three decades ago, the Lutsel K'e Dene tribe turned down a similar proposal, fearing national-park designation would interfere with hunting rights for their main food source, caribou. Now, howe ...
Topics: Canada, national parks, news (all these topics)

You Can't Always Nyet What You Want Russia plans enormous sports complex near pristine national park		15 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
You Can't Always Nyet What You Want Russia plans enormous sports complex near pristine national park Hoping to strengthen its bid for the 2014 Winter Olympics, the Russian government has approved an $11.3 billion project to turn areas of Sochi National Park into a ginormous winter-sports complex. The park is home to 300 endemic plant species and a variety of endangered flora and fauna; over a qu ...
Topics: Greenpeace, land degradation, national parks, news, Russia (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)

Smoky Chokey National parks aren't breathing easy		18 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Smoky Chokey National parks aren't breathing easy From California to Maine to Alaska -- sea to shining sea, as it were -- almost a third of America's national parks suffer poor air-quality conditions, says a new study by the National Parks Conservation Association. Sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and mercury threaten wildlife, plants, visitors, and staff, and can reduce the visibility of scenic views in some park ...
Topics: national parks, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

So That's Why It's Called Death Valley Climate change threatens national parks in the western U.S.		26 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
So That's Why It's Called Death Valley Climate change threatens national parks in the western U.S. Glacier National Park without glaciers? If global warming keeps on keepin' on, 12 of the most famous U.S. national parks are at serious risk, says a report released yesterday by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization. Temperatures in the Western U.S. have risen twice as fa ...
Topics: climate, national parks, news, NRDC, West (all these topics)

Ya Sure, You Hetcha New report feeds controversy over California's Hetch Hetchy dam		21 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Ya Sure, You Hetcha New report feeds controversy over California's Hetch Hetchy dam Activists have pushed for over 20 years to restore Yosemite National Park's Hetch Hetchy Valley to its natural state by knocking down a now 82-year-old dam and draining a 117-billion-gallon reservoir. This week, a California state report indicated that the project is technically feasible -- although the price tag would run b ...
Topics: California, national parks, news, San Francisco (all these topics)

Hap, Hap, Hooray! Snowmobilers and enviros craft compromise plan for wilderness in California		11 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Hap, Hap, Hooray! Snowmobilers and enviros craft compromise plan for wilderness in California A deal to set aside thousands of acres of wilderness near Yosemite National Park has been crafted by an odd alliance of snowmobilers, greens, and local officials. By agreeing to stay off 40,000 acres of public land, snowmobilers would receive unfettered winter access to 11,000 acres nearby. " ...
Topics: California, national parks, news, outdoor recreation, wilderness (all these topics)

Park de Triomphe Interior Dept. unveils new conservation-minded park policies		20 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Park de Triomphe Interior Dept. unveils new conservation-minded park policies New Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne scrapped predecessor Gale Norton's proposed policy changes to national-park management yesterday, issuing a revised draft with much greater emphasis on conservation. Reflective of policies already in place, the new draft de-emphasizes recreation, allows park managers to consider the effects of ou ...
Topics: Department of Interior, national parks, news (all these topics)

Old Pipeful National parks' air and land under threat from energy development		24 May 2006	Daily Grist
Old Pipeful National parks' air and land under threat from energy development Thousands of miles of new pipelines and power lines could soon snake through national parks, national forests, and other public lands in the West. The energy bill signed into law last year called on federal agencies to speed up approval of new energy corridors by putting them under a single, overarching environmental review instead of ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, national parks, news (all these topics)

Yukon Count on Me Group aims to create wildlife corridor from Yellowstone to Yukon		23 May 2006	Daily Grist
Yukon Count on Me Group aims to create wildlife corridor from Yellowstone to Yukon Recognizing that halting development is just not feasible (these are humans we're talking about), a group called Y2Y wants to create a wildlife corridor stretching from Yellowstone National Park to the Yukon in northwest Canada that would allow animals and people to coexist peaceably. A collaboration of conser ...
Topics: Canada, environmental planning, national parks, news, wildlife (all these topics)

It's Like We Peed in the Entire World's Snow Pesticide traces found in snow on high mountains in national parks		04 May 2006	Daily Grist
It's Like We Peed in the Entire World's Snow Pesticide traces found in snow on high mountains in national parks Snowfall in high-elevation parks in the Western U.S. is not, um, pure as the driven snow. A recent study found traces of agricultural pesticides in the snowfall at six national parks studied: Sequoia (California), Mount Rainier (Washington), Rocky Mountain (Colorado), Glacier (Montana), Denali (Alaska), and Gates of ...
Topics: national parks, news, toxics (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)

Oil in the Grand Canyon	David Roberts	29 Mar 2006	Gristmill
A Russian company called Dosko pushing to drill for oil in the Grand Canyon? Find out the details.
Topics: energy, national parks, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Ice Knowing You Enviros seek endangered status for Glacier National Park		17 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Ice Knowing You Enviros seek endangered status for Glacier National Park Greenland's not the only place where the glaciers, they are a-melting. Montana's Glacier National Park has lost over half its icy cover, and eco-activists have petitioned the United Nations to declare it endangered by global warming -- hoping to force U.S. policy makers to act on reducing the nation's greenhouse-gas emissions. Since Glac ...
Topics: Montana, national parks, news, United Nations (all these topics)

The Constant Guardians African parks and preserves face complex challenges		21 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
The Constant Guardians African parks and preserves face complex challenges Conservationists struggling to protect Africa's nature preserves face challenges ranging from pirate trawlers to locals hunting monkeys for food. At Conkouati National Park, a joint project of the Republic of Congo and the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society, oil company reps recently showed up accompanied by government officials and announced ...
Topics: Africa, national parks, news (all these topics)

O Tidings of Comfort and Anti-Enjoyment Latest national-parks policy draft drops worst of proposed revisions		19 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
O Tidings of Comfort and Anti-Enjoyment Latest national-parks policy draft drops worst of proposed revisions The Bush administration has released its proposed revision of National Park Service management policies for 90 days of public comment. An earlier draft, written by Deputy Assistant Interior Secretary Paul Hoffman and leaked to the press in August, would have required park managers to prove an activity would "irre ...
Topics: national parks, news, politics (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)

Raider of the Last Parks Proposal to change national-park rules stirring up controversy		26 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Raider of the Last Parks Proposal to change national-park rules stirring up controversy National parks are cool and all, but you know what they really need? More people on cell phones! That -- along with more snowmobiling and off-roading -- could happen under revisions to National Park Service policy proposed by Bush appointee Paul Hoffman, deputy assistant secretary of the interior. His plan, leaked to the press this week, ...
Topics: national parks, news, politics (all these topics)

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