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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 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)

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)

Coal and Calculating Bush Admin. Decision Could Boost Pollution in National Parks		17 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Coal and Calculating Bush Admin. Decision Could Boost Pollution in National Parks In a move that could lead to more pollution in national parks, the Bush administration on Friday said it will permit North Dakota to change the way it estimates air pollution in Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Seems like a small thing, but the new estimation formula is likely ...
Topics: energy, national parks, North Dakota, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA, Utah, wilderness (all these topics)

Snowmobefuddlement Judge Issues Yet Another Reversal of Yellowstone Snowmobile Ban		11 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Snowmobefuddlement Judge Issues Yet Another Reversal of Yellowstone Snowmobile Ban An already-confusing winter for tourists and tour operators in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks got more muddled yesterday, when a federal judge overturned severe restrictions on snowmobiling in the parks. For those of you keeping score at home, a quick rundown of the ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, environmental justice, national parks, outdoor recreation, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Let's Get Fiscal		03 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Let's Get Fiscal President Bush's $2.4 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year 2005, released today, gives the environment the shaft. The budget does propose funding increases for a handful of high-profile enviro projects (mostly in electoral swing states), including Superfund cleanups, conservation grants to private landowners, maintenance and construction in national parks ...
Topics: energy, fishing, national parks, politics, toxics, US EPA, US Forest Service (all these topics)

They're Going to Pump You Up Supreme Court to Review Two Important Environmental Cases		14 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
They're Going to Pump You Up Supreme Court to Review Two Important Environmental Cases In what court-watchers are calling an unusually in-depth review of environmental issues, the Supreme Court is set to hear two cases today with potentially nationwide implications for clean ...
Topics: air pollution, California, energy, environmental justice, Florida, national parks, Northeast, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, Southeast, toxics, West, wetlands (all these topics)

Judge to Bush: Are You Yellowstoned? Federal Judge Reinstates Clinton Snowmobile Ban in Yellowstone		17 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Judge to Bush: Are You Yellowstoned? Federal Judge Reinstates Clinton Snowmobile Ban in Yellowstone In a sharply worded ruling issued just hours before the start of the winter snowmobiling season in Yellowstone National Park, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan nixed the Bush administration's plans to allow nearly 1,000 snowmobiles in the park every day. The 49-page ruling pointed out that ...
Topics: national parks, outdoor recreation, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Let 'em Snowmobile, Let 'em Snowmobile, Let 'em Snowmobile Bush Administration Will Allow Snowmobiles in Yellowstone		12 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Let 'em Snowmobile, Let 'em Snowmobile, Let 'em Snowmobile Bush Administration Will Allow Snowmobiles in Yellowstone Snowmobiles will be welcome to keep zooming through Yellowstone National Park, the Bush administration announced yesterday, despite tens of thousands of public comments calling for the vehicles to be phased out from the oldest national park in the U.S. Final rules released yesterday on the issue ...
Topics: national parks, outdoor recreation, politics (all these topics)

Under African Sighs Zimbabwe's Wildlife Suffer Under Political Turmoil		27 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Under African Sighs Zimbabwe's Wildlife Suffer Under Political Turmoil Zimbabwe's corrupt and troubled government is not only making life miserable for many of the country's people but also for its once famous populations of elephants, rhinoceroses, and other wild animals. By some estimates, up to two-thirds of animals on Zimbabwe's game farms and wildlife preserves have been killed, including endangered speci ...
Topics: national parks, politics, wildlife, Zimbabwe (all these topics)

No More Elks' Conventions Wolves Help Restore Biodiversity in Yellowstone		30 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
No More Elks' Conventions Wolves Help Restore Biodiversity in Yellowstone Wolves have proven to be a big draw for tourists since they were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in 1995, but camera-toting vacationers aren't the only species they've attracted. The park's population of about 250 wolves seems to be spurring a general improvement in biodiversity, helping to bring Yellowstone's ecosystems back into balance. Consider, ...
Topics: national parks, wildlife (all these topics)

Orange U Sad? Illegal Logging Could Push Orangutans to the Brink of Extinction		30 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Orange U Sad? Illegal Logging Could Push Orangutans to the Brink of Extinction Orangutans could be wiped out within 20 years if illegal logging continues unabated on two islands in Indonesia and Malaysia, the only spots where the animals live, a researcher warned yesterday. As an example of troubling habitat destruction, anthropologist Cheryl Knott of Harvard University pointed to loggers' infiltrat ...
Topics: Indonesia, logging, Malaysia, national parks, wildlife (all these topics)

Enemy Mine I Landmines Hamper Progress of International Park in Africa		26 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Enemy Mine I Landmines Hamper Progress of International Park in Africa If you thought trying to get snowmobiles out of national parks was hard, try landmines. Zimbabwe's portion of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, an international wilderness that stretches into South Africa and Mozambique, is littered with landmines from the nation's liberation wars in the 1970s. Getting rid of them would cost millions -- money Zimbabwe doesn' ...
Topics: national parks, Zimbabwe (all these topics)

Durban Renewal World Parks Congress Closes with Signing of Durban Accord		18 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Durban Renewal World Parks Congress Closes with Signing of Durban Accord The 10-day World Parks Congress closed yesterday in Durban, South Africa, with the signing of the eponymous Durban Accord. The accord is not legally binding for its 154 signatories, but it is still considered a tool to "promote, guide, and influence positive action for protected areas around the globe," according to WPC Secretary ...
Topics: land stewardship, national parks, wilderness (all these topics)

Do Good Public Comments Needed to Keep Snowmobiles Out of Yellowstone		16 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Do Good Public Comments Needed to Keep Snowmobiles Out of Yellowstone More than two and a half years after a phaseout was supposed to have begun, snowmobiles continue to run rampant in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, disturbing wildlife, making park workers sick from fumes, and polluting the nation's precious natural treasures. A proposed rule from the Bush a ...
Topics: air pollution, National Park Service, national parks, outdoor recreation, politics (all these topics)

Put It in Park Megapark Will Protect Vast Stretch of Pristine Amazon Rainforest		16 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Put It in Park Megapark Will Protect Vast Stretch of Pristine Amazon Rainforest Brazil has announced the creation of a new "conservation corridor" that will link 12 separate protected areas in the Amazon rainforest to create a 25 million-acre megapark. It will be the world's largest protected stretch of tropical rainforest, encompassing about 70 percent of Brazil's northern state of Amapa, which scie ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, national parks, rainforests (all these topics)

Meet the New Mobile, Worse than the Old Mobile New Snowmobiles to Be Permitted in Yellowstone Are Dirtier Than Old Models		04 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Meet the New Mobile, Worse than the Old Mobile New Snowmobiles to Be Permitted in Yellowstone Are Dirtier Than Old Models A new generation of ostensibly cleaner and quieter snowmobiles turns out to be more polluting than older models, according to tests by the U.S. EPA. In a controversial Bush administration decision, the new snowmobiles were approved for use in Yellowstone and Grand Teton na ...
Topics: air pollution, national parks, outdoor recreation, placemaking (all these topics)

Hazing Incident EPA Settles Case Over Haze in National Parks		20 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Hazing Incident EPA Settles Case Over Haze in National Parks Visitors to U.S. national parks and other wild areas should be able to breathe a little easier in the future, thanks to a legal settlement signed yesterday by the U.S. EPA and Environmental Defense. Under the terms of the settlement, the agency has until April 2005 to cut haze in 156 national parks and wilderness areas, including Acadia ...
Topics: air pollution, national parks, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Friday in the Park With George Bush Calls For More National Parks Funding; Critics Remain Skeptical		18 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Friday in the Park With George Bush Calls For More National Parks Funding; Critics Remain Skeptical Speaking at the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area on Friday, President Bush asked Congress to commit billions more dollars to the national park system, a move his supporters saw as evidence of his environmental commitment and critics called a pointless PR op. The president boasted that he'd already d ...
Topics: California, national parks, news, politics (all these topics)

Cow-a-bunga Enviro Coalition Buys Out Large Grazing Permit in Wyoming		04 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Cow-a-bunga Enviro Coalition Buys Out Large Grazing Permit in Wyoming A coalition of conservation groups has agreed to pay $250,000 to a Wyoming rancher to buy out her federal grazing permit, a deal that will keep cattle out of a 137-square-mile area that abuts Grand Teton National Park. The land is home to grizzly bears, wolves, lynx, bald eagles, and numerous other species. This is just the latest incidence ...
Topics: national parks, ranching, wilderness, Wyoming (all these topics)

Their Own Private Park Service Former Interior Secretaries Excoriate Plan to Privatize Park Service		31 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Their Own Private Park Service Former Interior Secretaries Excoriate Plan to Privatize Park Service "Radical," "reckless," "hellbent" -- those were some of the words Bruce Babbitt and Stewart Udall used to describe the Bush administration's plan to privatize much of the National Park Service. Prior to this week, the two former secretaries of the Interior Department -- both of th ...
Topics: business, national parks, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Parks Stuck in Neutral		03 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Parks Stuck in Neutral The Bush administration defended itself yesterday against charges of neglecting the national park system, saying it has spent billions to maintain and repair parks around the country. According to U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton, $2.9 billion has been spent on a maintenance and repair backlog and 900 related projects have been completed; in addition, she said, the department i ...
Topics: national parks, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

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