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Pup Tense Parks ban dogs from hiking trails to protect wildlife		12 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Pup Tense Parks ban dogs from hiking trails to protect wildlife You might find it heartwarming to see Rover frolicking in the wilderness, but residents of the backcountry may not share your joy. Hiking with dogs is hugely popular, but some park rangers and biologists worry hikers don't follow the rules, letting their dogs run riot and hound (heh) wildlife. Pups were recently banned from all but one trail in a North ...
Topics: national parks, news, outdoor recreation (all these topics)

Apotcalypse Armed pot growers invade public lands		10 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Apotcalypse Armed pot growers invade public lands When we say "growing pot in national parks," what do you think of? Aging hippie, beat-up VW minibus, little dope field a few yards up the hill from the camp site? Yeah, those were good times ... but where were we? Oh yes. Well, times change: California's Sequoia National Park has become prime cropland for pot growers, and we're not talking bliss ...
Topics: California, land degradation, national parks, news (all these topics)

Ursa Rager Green groups divided over next moves to protect Yellowstone grizzlies		08 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Ursa Rager Green groups divided over next moves to protect Yellowstone grizzlies A schism is growing in the environmental movement over Bush administration plans to remove Yellowstone's grizzly bears from the endangered-species list. Bear numbers have roughly tripled since 1975, to about 600 bears today. Some ursine advocates want to call it a story of successful species recovery. They say delisting Yellowstone's bears will ...
Topics: national parks, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Buenos Vistas New EPA effort to cut haze in national parks		17 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Buenos Vistas New EPA effort to cut haze in national parks The U.S. EPA this week released new regulations designed to clean up hazy air in 156 national parks and wilderness areas. The rules aim to eliminate 1 million tons of nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide emissions a year by 2014. States must identify the industrial sites smogging up places like Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where air pollution can ...
Topics: air pollution, national parks, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Parks and Ride On whether to visit national parks	Umbra Fisk	18 May 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, We are considering a driving vacation this summer with the intent of visiting as many of America's wonderful national parks as we can -- both to enjoy them and to add some money to their coffers, which have been depleted in recent years. But as we all know, burning up lots of gasoline is bad for the environment. My question is: would it be a better environmental choice to drive around and support the national ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, cars, national parks, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

Busy Bee Environmental series on Hetch Hetchy Valley wins Pulitzer Prize		05 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Busy Bee Environmental series on Hetch Hetchy Valley wins Pulitzer Prize The best opinion writing takes the unthinkable and makes it a live possibility. That's what Sacramento Bee Associate Editor Tom Philp did with "Hetch Hetchy Reclaimed," his editorial series on breaching the dam that has held Yosemite National Park's famed valley under water since 1923. The Pulitzer board, which yesterday awar ...
Topics: California, dams, energy, national parks, news (all these topics)

Not Just Another Pretty Space An interview with risk-taking park ranger Jordan Fisher Smith, author of Nature Noir	Aaron Dalton	23 Mar 2005	Arts and Minds
Jordan Fisher Smith. If you had to guess which federal agents in the U.S. face the greater danger, who would you put your money on: the officers who wage the endless War on Drugs, or the rangers who patrol the green acres of the national parks? Well, it's the rangers. According to a 2001 study by the Bureau of Justice, nature's security guards are twice a ...
Topics: dams, energy, interview, National Park Service, national parks (all these topics)

10 reasons national parks need help	David Roberts	03 Mar 2005	Gristmill
The National Parks Conservation Association has launched a new campaign called 'Faded Glory: Top Ten Reasons to Reinvest in America's National Park Heritage.' Reading the top ten list is eye-opening, if somewhat depressing: Funding shortfalls are hurting education efforts, historical preservation, the war on invasive species and poaching, routine maintenance, the list goes on. Give it a look and then follow their directions to take action.
Topics: national parks (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)

Purple Haze, All in My Parks Gas drilling in the West threatens air at national parks		31 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Purple Haze, All in My Parks Gas drilling in the West threatens air at national parks Air quality and visibility at more than a dozen of the nation's oldest and most beloved national parks and monuments, including Mt. Rushmore and Yellowstone National Park, are under threat from the ongoing boom in natural-gas drilling in the Western U.S. Officials from the Bureau of Land Management admit that the ...
Topics: air pollution, mining and drilling, national parks, West (all these topics)

Howl's About That? Enviros celebrate 10th anniversary of wolf release		12 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Howl's About That? Enviros celebrate 10th anniversary of wolf release Today marks the 10th anniversary of the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park, an area from which they were eradicated by the 1920s. The transplant experiment, meant to help restore wolf populations protected under the Endangered Species Act, stirred strong feelings, both positive and negative, in 1995, and much of that controve ...
Topics: national parks, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Moving in the Wrong Directional Bush admin changed rule to facilitate drilling under parks, suit charges		18 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Moving in the Wrong Directional Bush admin changed rule to facilitate drilling under parks, suit charges Without the required public input, the Bush administration changed a federal rule, making it easier for oil and gas companies to drill for privately owned minerals beneath national parks, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday by the Sierra Club. At issue is "directional drilling," whereby o ...
Topics: mining and drilling, national parks, United States (all these topics)

Kvetch Hetchy Schwarzenegger admin will consider undamming Hetch Hetchy		12 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Kvetch Hetchy Schwarzenegger admin will consider undamming Hetch Hetchy To the surprise of, well, just about everybody, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's (R) resources secretary announced yesterday that he will pull together a thorough assessment of a project once considered entirely fanciful: tearing down O'Shaughnessy Dam and restoring Yosemite National Park's Hetch Hetc ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, dams, energy, national parks, politics (all these topics)

Overpowering Utilities seek to build power plants near national parks		29 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Overpowering Utilities seek to build power plants near national parks Visibility in many U.S. national parks is declining and demand for electricity is rising -- two trends that are set to collide. Since 2000, the number of applications to build power plants within 62 miles of park boundaries has quadrupled, relative to the previous five years. More than 10 percent of those plants would be coal-fired. " ...
Topics: air pollution, national parks, United States (all these topics)

Ban Ban Federal judge repeals Clinton snowmobile ban		18 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Ban Ban Federal judge repeals Clinton snowmobile ban The latest chapter has opened in what has become a sort of mini-Iliad for our times: the battle over snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. On Friday, a federal judge in Wyoming, Clarence Brimmer, struck down the ban on snowmobiles in the parks put in place toward the end of Clinton's second term. The ban, he wrote in his opin ...
Topics: national parks, outdoor recreation, politics, Wyoming (all these topics)

Hang Up and Hike Cell towers and phones are invading national parks		01 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Hang Up and Hike Cell towers and phones are invading national parks The swish of a breeze through the trees. The twittering of birds. The burbling of a brook. The ... opening notes of "U Can't Touch This"? Get used to it: Bleeping (and by that we mean fricking) cell phones are becoming more common in national parks, in part because cell companies are pushing to build towers there. For ...
Topics: business, green living, national parks, United States (all these topics)

Parky Pig National park funding determined by political clout rather than need		29 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Parky Pig National park funding determined by political clout rather than need At a time when three-quarters of national parks are having their base budgets cut and park advocates are crying out about the desperate need for more funding, it may gall many enviros to find out how capricious and politically motivated park funding really is. Consider the little-known Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio: Its base bu ...
Topics: national parks, politics, United States (all these topics)

No Trespassing Bush admin move may keep Kerry and other candidates from stumping on federal property	Amanda Griscom	02 Sep 2004	Muckraker
John Kerry at the Grand Canyon. Photo: Kerry-Edwards 2004, Inc. from Sharon Farmer. The Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, NASA headquarters, and the Washington Monument are among the many federal properties that may be off-limits to presidential and congressional candidates for campaign photo ops this election season, thanks to a guidance recently released by the Bu ...
Topics: elections, Muckraker, national parks, politics (all these topics)

Enough With the Snowmobiles Already Bush Administration Pushes for Snowmobiles in Yellowstone -- Again		19 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Enough With the Snowmobiles Already Bush Administration Pushes for Snowmobiles in Yellowstone -- Again The saga of snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park contains more twists and turns than a Grisham novel. Only without the sex. Or violence. But plenty of lawsuits! And snowmobiles! The latest: The Bush administration unveiled a plan today that would allow up to 720 snowmobiles into Yellowstone each ...
Topics: national parks, outdoor recreation, United States (all these topics)

Put on a Happy Face National Park Service employees muzzled on budget shortfalls and other problems	Amanda Griscom	12 May 2004	Muckraker
Bush addresses NPS employees in Sequoia National Park. Photo: NPS. It's the reverse of the Midas touch -- instead of turning to gold, everything they touch turns to shit." That's how Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, explained the recent activities of the Bush administration's National Park Service to Muckraker ...
Topics: Muckraker, National Park Service, national parks, politics (all these topics)

Come On, Feel the Noise New 'quiet' snowmobiles in Yellowstone are anything but	Amanda Griscom	20 Apr 2004	Muckraker
New "quiet" snowmobiles in Yellowstone are anything but By Amanda Griscom 20 Apr 2004 A vroom with a view. Photo: Greater Yellowstone Coalition. You might think a winter job in the snowy recesses of Yellowstone National Park would guarantee perks along the lines of, say, peace and quiet. Au contraire. In light of a recent study conducted for the National Park Service, many Yellowstone employees are being advised to don hearing protection fit for a rock-and-ro ...
Topics: Muckraker, national parks, politics, Wyoming (all these topics)

Craig's List An interview with Bush's point person on species and parks	Amanda Griscom	15 Apr 2004	Main Dish
Craig Manson. Craig Manson is the man President Bush selected to protect America's critters. And like many top dogs in this administration, he's not exactly considered a good friend of the environmental community. As assistant interior secretary for fish, wildlife, and parks, Manson implements the Endangered Species Act, determines the direction of the National Park System and the Fish and Wi ...
Topics: Department of Interior, endangered species, interview, national parks, politics, United States (all these topics)

How to Succeed Without Really Trying North Dakota 'Reduces' Pollution by Measuring It Differently		19 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: air pollution, energy, mining and drilling, national parks, North Dakota, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Snow News Day The Yellowstone snowmobile controversy gets more convoluted by the minute	Amanda Griscom	18 Feb 2004	Muckraker
The past few days have brought two more odd legal twists and turns to the Yellowstone snowmobile saga, which is becoming more litigiously complex and far-flung than a John Grisham novel. She's got a ticket to ride. Photo: NPS. The story is essentially a protracted game of legal Ping-Pong: The Clinton administration served the ball when it ordered a phaseout of snowmobiles in Yell ...
Topics: Muckraker, national parks, placemaking, politics, West (all these topics)

Snow News Day Yellowstone Snowmobile Saga Gets Even More Convoluted		18 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: environmental justice, national parks, outdoor recreation, placemaking, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

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