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Walk Softly and Carry a Big Computer Model		16 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Walk Softly and Carry a Big Computer Model Unless you live there, you probably haven't been following the brouhaha in North Dakota. So here's the skinny: The U.S. EPA insists that the state is in violation of air quality standards because of the high concentration of sulfur dioxide in the air at the otherwise-pristine Theodore Roosevelt National Park and a national wildlife refuge. The state, meanwhile, ...
Topics: air pollution, national parks, North Dakota, US EPA (all these topics)

No Room at the Inn		14 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
No Room at the Inn Banff National Park is the jewel of the Canadian Rockies -- and its most sparkly facet is Lake Louise, famous for emerald waters, dense forests, and glittering reflections of Victoria Glacier. But the peaceful-looking spot is actually a battleground between a large Canadian hotel chain and environmentalists who want to put a stop to a proposed $45 million, six-story addition to the ...
Topics: Canada, lakes, national parks, placemaking, wildlife (all these topics)

Paradise Without the Dashboard Light		07 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Paradise Without the Dashboard Light The word "Zion" means a peaceful paradise -- and for the past two years, Zion National Park has lived up to its name. Two summers ago, the famed Utah destination became the first national park in the continental U.S. to ban automobiles during peak visitor season. The resulting changes have been dramatic: fresh air, peace and quiet, the sounds of nature, and the r ...
Topics: national parks, placemaking, Utah, wilderness (all these topics)

Under Loch and Key		08 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Under Loch and Key After 50 years of debate, Scotland will get its first-ever national park this month. The area around Loch Lomond, where the park will be established, attracts 5 million visitors annually but currently lacks an effective management structure to balance the area's conflicting interests and protect the landscape and wildlife that are its main attraction. Establishment of the Loch Lomond and the ...
Topics: lakes, national parks, Scotland, wilderness (all these topics)

Taylor-made Destruction		04 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Taylor-made Destruction Charles Taylor, the president of Liberia, has spread instability within his nation's borders and helped foment a brutal civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone. To fund the fighting, he has exploited his country's natural resources. At first, it was diamonds -- but as internati ...
Topics: Africa, business, Colombia, deforestation, environmental non-government organizations, land stewardship, Liberia, logging, national parks, Sierra Leone (all these topics)

Yosemite Slam		21 May 2002	Daily Grist
Yosemite Slam As the fifth highest waterfall on the planet, Yosemite Falls is one of the world's most photographed natural wonders -- and the area around it is one of the most heavily tromped, trampled, and otherwise degraded. The falls attract about 3 million visitors per year, which has lead to despoiled trails, jam-packed parking lots, and overcrowded bathrooms. All that could change courtesy of a tw ...
Topics: California, national parks, placemaking, wilderness (all these topics)

Air Squawl-ity		30 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Air Squawl-ity We here at Grist have long since lost track of the score in the face-off between the snowmobile industry and people who like to be able to breathe in national parks, but at any rate, the latter earned a point yesterday when the U.S. EPA issued a report calling for a complete ban on snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. Reiterating its position of three years ago ...
Topics: air pollution, national parks, outdoor recreation, US EPA (all these topics)

Ski-don't		17 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Ski-don't There's good news and bad news for environmentalists on the personal-watercraft front. On the up side, the National Park Service announced yesterday that it would permanently close five national parks to personal watercraft. Park officials and much of the general public object to personal watercraft i ...
Topics: environmental justice, National Park Service, national parks, outdoor recreation, politics, pollution and waste, Texas, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Parking Is Expensive		15 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Parking Is Expensive Today is tax day in the U.S. (need we remind you?), but not many of your tax dollars will go to support the national park system -- and certainly not enough, conservationists say. The system is suffering from a $4.9 billion backlog in maintenance and improvement projects, a 40 percent shortfall for interpretive and educational services, and a 33 percent shortfall for ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, national parks, politics (all these topics)

Dune Messiah		11 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Dune Messiah It's a rare moment when ranchers and environmentalists see eye-to-eye -- and yet a collaboration between the two parties is leading to the creation of the nation's 57th national park. The unlikely relationship began when enviros and ranchers realized they had something in common: a need to protect the water resources in Colorado's San Luis Valley. Although it receives very little ...
Topics: Colorado, land stewardship, national parks, Nature Conservancy (all these topics)

Park and Writhe		25 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Park and Writhe Air pollution, development, and funding cuts are just some of the problems facing the U.S. national parks system, according to the National Parks Conservation Association's annual report on the country's 10 most endangered parks. The diversion of water from the Rio Grande and air pollution from Mexico are threatening Big Bend National Park in Texas, the group says. Pollution from power plants is ...
Topics: health, national parks, pollution and waste (all these topics)

New District in Colombia		14 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
New District in Colombia In what conservationists hope will serve as a model for future projects, Colombia has set aside a 167,960-acre park in the Amazon basin and granted the indigenous people who live there control over its management. Formally established late last month after years of negotiations between the government, indigenous people, and environmental groups, Indiwasi National Park is located in the most biologicall ...
Topics: national parks, South America (all these topics)

Weeping and Railing		31 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Weeping and Railing Convinced that "potentially significant" environmental problems could be avoided, federal regulators yesterday approved the largest railroad construction project in recent history. The project, a $1.4 billion, 900-mile line linking Wyoming coal fields to the Mississippi River, was okayed after the Surface Transporta ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, national parks, placemaking, rivers and watersheds, South Dakota, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Mess Transit		28 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Mess Transit As perhaps the most famous national park in the United States, the Grand Canyon occupies an equally vast space in our national psyche as in our national landscape. Unfortunately, it is also our national bottleneck. Each year, 5 million people flock to the park, leaving 6,000 cars to battle for 2,400 parking spaces every day during the summer. Park officials have recognized the probl ...
Topics: Arizona, national parks, placemaking, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Blood Is Thicker Than Water		10 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Blood Is Thicker Than Water It was a family affair, but the significance was national: President Bush and his brother Jeb, the governor of Florida, signed an agreement yesterday to guarantee that water captured by a $7.8 billion Florida Everglades restoration effort ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental restoration, Florida, food and agriculture, green living, national parks, politics, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts, wetlands (all these topics)

Parknost		17 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Parknost Dormant plans for an international park spanning the Bering Strait have been revived, thanks to a gung-ho new governor in the Russian Far East. Under the last governor of Chukotka, western tourists and researchers got the cold shoulder, but Gov. Roman Abramovich is welcoming joint programs with Alaska, including research, conservation, tourism, and economic ventures. U.S. National Park Service reps plan to discuss t ...
Topics: Alaska, national parks, Russia (all these topics)

Fill Up Yer Camel, Sir?		05 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Fill Up Yer Camel, Sir? A court in Pakistan ruled yesterday that Britain's Premier Oil can go ahead with plans to test for natural gas in the country's largest national park, which is home to rare urial sheep, ibex, and chinkara gazelle. Shehri-Citizens for a Better Environment and Friends of the Earth International say Premier' ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental non-government organizations, national parks, Pakistan, wildlife (all these topics)

They Have Found What They're Looking for		21 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
They Have Found What They're Looking for Following a negative environmental report from the California Energy Commission, a major energy firm has ended its plans to build a big power plant seven miles from Joshua Tree National Park. Environmentalists had feared that a new state law to speed power-plant approval, which was created in the wake of California's energy "crisis& ...
Topics: air pollution, California, energy, national parks, politics, state politics (all these topics)

A Snow Job		20 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
A Snow Job In its first major move on air pollution since President Bush took office, the U.S. EPA yesterday proposed the first emissions rules for snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, forklifts, and diesel-powered boats. The proposal, which is particularly aimed at reducing pollution in national parks, would cut total carbon-monoxide emissions from the vehicles by 56 percent and hydrocarbon and nit ...
Topics: air pollution, national parks, outdoor recreation, US EPA (all these topics)

The Slush of Mount Kilimanjaro		10 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
The Slush of Mount Kilimanjaro Many favorite vacation spots around the world are threatened by global warming. For example, the snow atop Mount Kilimanjaro may be around for just 15 more years and the glaciers in Glacier National Park in Montana may last just 70 more, according to recent studies. Would you like to travel to an uncomfortably hot and smoggy Paris -- or a Martinique beset by hurricanes? "Glob ...
Topics: business, climate, national parks, Tanzania (all these topics)

Dah-ling I Love You, Don't Give My Parks Avenues		31 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Dah-ling I Love You, Don't Give My Parks Avenues The U.S. National Park Service should stop worrying so much about pleasing visitors and instead focus on protecting natural resources, says an advisory panel. In its report, which is slated to be made public tomorrow, the National Park System Advisory Board says that the agency should "[a]dopt the conservation of biodiversity as a core p ...
Topics: land stewardship, national parks, outdoor recreation, wilderness (all these topics)

Howl I saw the best wolves of my generation destroyed by madness	Susan Zakin	20 Jul 2000	Soapbox
Gray days for wolves. Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Protection for the gray wolf, totem animal for the Clinton administration's conservation legacy, is likely to be ratcheted down from endangered to threatened, thanks to a proposal unveiled last week by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Its announcement was a fitting coda to eight years of an administration that we kept wishing would do better. ...
Topics: national parks, politics, ranching, United States, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Vacation, All You Never Wanted	Suzy Becker	04 Oct 1999	Ha.

Topics: national parks (all these topics)

Bombs Away! Is the military about to blow its chance to protect southwestern desert land?	Susan Zakin	16 Jun 1999	Main Dish
A bombshell exploded a few weeks ago in the midst of tangled negotiations over the fate of the 2.7 million-acre Barry M. Goldwater Bombing Range in the Sonoran Desert of southwestern Arizona. Mohawk Dunes, Goldwater Bombing Range. The Air Force accidentally dropped a 500-pound bomb April 30 on a part of the range that the Air Force is proposing to turn over to the Bureau of Land ...
Topics: Arizona, Bureau of Land Management, national parks (all these topics)

Yellowstone, Gray Water, Brown Air		21 Apr 1999	Daily Grist
Yellowstone, Gray Water, Brown Air A crumbling sewage system at Yellowstone National Park is dumping wastewater into Yellowstone Lake, and traffic and air pollution have beset Grand Canyon National Park, according to the National Parks and Conservation Association. The group released a list of the 10 most endangered national parks yesterday, highlighting an array of problems in the park system. The maintenance bac ...
Topics: air pollution, Harry Reid, national parks (all these topics)

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