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Back to the Yellowstone Age		26 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Back to the Yellowstone Age The Bush administration has asked the United Nations to remove Yellowstone National Park from a list of endangered World Heritage sites. "Yellowstone is no longer in danger," wrote the Interior Department's Paul Hoffman in a letter to the World Heritage Committee. There's just one snag: The park staff disagree with Hoffman, saying Yello ...
Topics: Idaho, Montana, national parks, politics, water pollution, wilderness, Wyoming (all these topics)

South Parks		17 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
South Parks A plan to privatize a string of national parks in sub-Saharan Africa has garnered support from former South African president Nelson Mandela, the World Bank, and the U.S. State Department, among others. The plan grew out of a 1998 meeting between Mandela and Paul van Vlissingen, a Dutch tycoon and conservationist, at which Mandela expressed concern that many African nations didn't have the ...
Topics: Africa, land stewardship, national parks, wilderness (all these topics)

Raising the Zanzibar		22 May 2003	Daily Grist
Raising the Zanzibar The island of Zanzibar, located just off the coast of Tanzania, is set to get its first national park. The island, which is independently governed, plans to convert the 12,355-acre Jozani Forest Reserve into a national park to promote better conservation, management, and natural-resource use, according to Mussa Ame Silima, Zanzibar's minister of agriculture, natural reso ...
Topics: Africa, national forests, national parks, wilderness, Zanzibar (all these topics)

Neverglades		21 May 2003	Daily Grist
Neverglades In more bad news for the environment, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) yesterday signed into law a highly controversial plan that will delay cleanup of phosphorus from the Everglades by a decade and, critics say, potentially result in the loss of $4 billion in federal funding for the massive restoration project. Bush -- who said signing the Everglades Forever Act was "the tough ...
Topics: Florida, legislation, national parks, news, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Sadder Day in the Park		19 May 2003	Daily Grist
Sadder Day in the Park Summer is just around the bend, and with it, people all over the country will begin their annual pilgrimages to U.S national parks. Unfortunately, the parks aren't ready for them: They are underfunded, over-crowded, and in disrepair. The National Park Service budget has declined almost 20 percent in the last 25 years, while the park system itself has grown in size, number of parks, and numbe ...
Topics: national parks, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Gutter Talk		21 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Gutter Talk The Bush administration has been discreetly gutting environmental protections by encouraging industry groups to sue over rules and then settling those lawsuits on terms favorable to industry, enviros argue. Using such tactics, the administration has allowed more logging in Northwest forests, curtailed protections for roadless lands and ...
Topics: Earthjustice, fishing, logging, national parks, Northwest, politics, water pollution, West, wilderness (all these topics)

We'll Si		10 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
We'll Si Once upon a time, the Dominican Republic's Parque Nacional del Este was the poster child for Parks in Peril, a joint program of the Nature Conservancy and the U.S. Agency for International Development to support land-preservation efforts in the Caribbean and Latin America. Today, though, the park has become a symbol of the difficulties such efforts have encountered in keeping development and ...
Topics: Dominican Republic, national parks, Nature Conservancy (all these topics)

Black and Blue Canyon		03 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Black and Blue Canyon In a move that environmentalists and others fear could set a dangerous precedent, the U.S. Department of the Interior has ceded control over the waters in Colorado's Gunnison National Park, allowing the state to sell it to cities. Interior Secretary Gale Norton said the decision to hand over control of the river (which was awarded to the federal government when the Black Canyon ...
Topics: Department of Interior, national parks, water conflicts (all these topics)

Crying Shaman		19 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Crying Shaman A new oil pipeline that will run from the Russian region of Buryatiya into China is being hailed by industry officials and government leaders as a major economic boon, but many local residents beg to differ. Construction of the pipeline will involve bulldozing land and felling trees -- environmental problems anywhere and ...
Topics: Asia, China, commercial and industry organizations, globalization, green living, logging, national parks, wilderness (all these topics)

Wooda, Coulda, Shouldn't		13 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Wooda, Coulda, Shouldn't The U.S. Congress is readying to pass its catch-all domestic spending bill this week -- and with it, a provision that would give the timber industry responsibility for managing millions of acres of national forests throughout the West. Under the provision, which was added at the last min ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, business, land stewardship, logging, national parks, politics, Ted Stevens, US Forest Service, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Don't Cry, Wolf		03 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Don't Cry, Wolf The gray wolf, once nearly wiped out in the Lower 48 states, is flourishing in the northern Rocky Mountains thanks to a federal recovery effort that got underway in 1995 with the reintroduction of 14 Canadian wolves into Yellowstone National Park. Now there are nearly 700 wolves in 41 packs in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, and the feds are on the verge of declaring victory. T ...
Topics: national parks, ranching, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Park and Writhe		15 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Park and Writhe The National Parks Conservation Association has released its annual list of endangered parks -- and, sadly, it includes some of the most treasured wild areas in the U.S.: Yellowstone, Denali, and the Great Smoky Mountains, among others. The unlucky parks made the list because they ...
Topics: air pollution, California, Florida, Georgia, Montana, National Park Service, national parks, politics, pollution and waste, Texas, Virginia, wilderness (all these topics)

Pombo and (Unfortunate) Circumstance		10 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Pombo and (Unfortunate) Circumstance U.S. Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Calif.) was chosen this week to lead the House Resources Committee, much to the dismay of environmentalists. As head of the committee, Pombo, who earned only a 9 percent approval rating from the League of Conservation Voters in the last session of Congress, will have significant say in shaping fe ...
Topics: environmental justice, League of Conservation Voters, national parks, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

No Mobiles		04 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
No Mobiles Environmentalists took the National Park Service to court yesterday over ongoing delays in implementing a ban on snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. In 2000, the agency approved a plan that would have limited the number of snowmobiles in the parks to under 500 by this winter and mandated that drivers be accompanied by park guides. But the agency ...
Topics: Bluewater Network, National Park Service, national parks, outdoor recreation (all these topics)

Like Padre, Like Son		22 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Like Padre, Like Son With no public announcement, the Bush administration has given the go-ahead to two new natural gas wells in the Padre Island National Seashore, which boasts the nation's longest stretch of undeveloped beach and 11 endangered species. Oil and gas drilling have occurred in the Texas park before, but the rate of drilling dropped sharply in th ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, national parks, oceans, politics, Sierra Club, Texas, wildlife (all these topics)

Point. Click. Ignore.		18 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Point. Click. Ignore. One-click activism has been a one-click failure with the Bush administration thus far. The Interior Department, for example, received 360,000 public comments (the huge majority of them sent by email) about the future of snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks; 80 percent of the writers asked that the government ban the snowmobiles. Last week, however, the administrati ...
Topics: Department of Interior, national parks, politics (all these topics)

A Snowball's Chance		18 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
A Snowball's Chance Perhaps the clearest and most visible sign of climate change in America won't be around for much longer: The glaciers of Glacier National Park in Montana are melting and will be gone within 30 years, scientists say. Dan Fagre, the 49-year-old leader of the U.S. Geological Survey team studying the problem, says, "It's not just going to happen in my lifetime. It's going to happ ...
Topics: climate, Montana, national parks, US Geological Survey (all these topics)

Respirators Still Needed in Yellowstone		12 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Respirators Still Needed in Yellowstone Rolling back a Clinton-era decision that would have banned snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks by the upcoming winter, the Bush administration plans to place no limits on snowmobiles until December 2003 and then to cap the number of snowmobiles at 1,100 per day. For the past decade, the parks have had an average of 840 snowmobiles ...
Topics: National Park Service, national parks, NRDC, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Bambi Vs. Thumper		01 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Bambi Vs. Thumper The Bush administration's plan to expand fossil fuel exploration in the West ran into an obstacle Wednesday when a federal judge temporarily blocked the Interior Department from allowing energy prospecting on thousands of acres of public land in Utah. The ruling halted a project by a seismic exploration company to search for oil and gas reserves in Utah's Arches National Pa ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, national parks, politics, Utah (all these topics)

Wet Behind the Ears		14 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Wet Behind the Ears In what it is calling a remedy to the excesses of the Clinton years, the Bush administration is paving the way for Western states to gain control over huge volumes of water previously claimed by the federal government. One prominent example of this new policy involves the Black Canyon National Park in Colorado; in 1978, a court ruled that the feds had the right to ...
Topics: national parks, politics, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts, West (all these topics)

Smoky Signals		04 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Smoky Signals The superintendent of Yosemite National Park announced yesterday that he would retire rather than accept a transfer to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where he would have been called upon to oversee two controversial projects opposed by environmentalists and others. One project involves building a road across the largest undeveloped wilderness in the eastern U.S. to enable area residents to reach ...
Topics: national parks, politics, United States (all these topics)

Old Yeller		27 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Old Yeller In better mass transit news, Yellowstone National Park is in the early stages of launching a public-transportation plan designed to cut down on air and noise pollution. Harkening back to its past, the park has reacquired a small fleet of yellow tour buses that were phased out of service in the 1950s. The park plans to refurbish the buses and use them as shuttles between some of Yellowstone's most popular destinations. ...
Topics: national parks, placemaking (all these topics)

Koh Chang: Ka-ching!		23 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Koh Chang: Ka-ching! One by one, Thailand's tropical islands have been overrun by the tourism industry and all but gutted by unbridled, profit-driven development. Now the nation's impoverished government has its eye on the last large piece of unspoiled land: idyllic Koh Chang Island. This time, though, the government promises it will use proper zoning, strict regulations on construction and transportation, ...
Topics: business, national parks, placemaking, Thailand (all these topics)

Fargone		16 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Fargone Even though it lacks big cities and doesn't have the smokestacks of say, an Ohio or a Texas, North Dakota is the only state in the country where the air in federal preserves is more polluted than the Clean Air Act allows. So says the U.S. EPA, which will decide soon whether to force North Dakota to undertake a cleanup that could cost industrial facilities hundreds of millions of dollars. Accordi ...
Topics: air pollution, national parks, North Dakota, US EPA (all these topics)

Not So Jolly		13 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Not So Jolly An Italian ship carrying 400,000 gallons of diesel and fuel oil as well as highly toxic chemicals grounded yesterday just off a park in South Africa that is home to rare birds, fish, turtles, and plants. A fire has been raging on the Jolly Rubino for days, and the ship has come to rest seven miles south of the Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park's main estuary. Oil is r ...
Topics: national parks, South Africa, toxics, water bodies and marine life, wetlands (all these topics)

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