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I say good riddance to bad billboards

The writer wants to clearcut the thicket of billboards lining gateway towns to Yellowstone National Park

by Bill Croke, May 16, 2005
Change comes slowly to Escalante country

Just as it seemed the local communities were starting to accept the BLM’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, the rise of conservative national politics has helped to revive old grudges and stir up opposition

by Michelle Nijhuis, Apr 14, 2003
Utah's Grand Staircase turns 5

In Utah, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument no longer provokes the noisy protest that attended its founding, but some locals are still waiting to see if tourism will boost the economy.

by Lin Alder, Nov 05, 2001
Grand Canyon development sparks debate

Canyon Forest Village, a development near the south entrance of the Grand Canyon, has been approved, but some environmentalists plan to appeal the project.

by Tim Westby, Aug 30, 1999
A bridge to disaster?

Environmentalists object to a Forest Service plan to build a new snowmobile bridge across Cougar Creek near the edge of Yellowstone National Park.

by Rachel Odell, Oct 12, 1998
In place of a bigger park, Tucson gets houses

Growing Tucson suburbs invade land on the edgoe of Arizona's Saguaro National Park West, when federal funds for a promised buyout of the land fail to materialize.

by Tony Davis, Sep 28, 1998
When parks close, towns lose

A report by the National Parks and Conservation Association says that gateway communities suffered big economic losses when national parks closed during the 1996 government shutdown.

by Staff, Feb 17, 1997
Grizzlies and tourism collide on Wyoming road

The proposed widening and straightening of Highway 14-16-20, the link between Cody, Wyo., and Yellowstone National Park, raises tremendous controversy between tourism boosters and environmentalist critics.

by Michael Milstein, Feb 03, 1997
An urban park is surrounded by controversy

Petroglyph National Monument in Albuquerque, N.M., faces pressure from the surrounding city.

by Ruth Haas, Dec 12, 1994
Babbitt takes a fall

Bruce Babbitt considers expansion of road through national monument.

by Staff, Feb 07, 1994

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Results for keyword: Gateway communities

I say good riddance to bad billboards

Change comes slowly to Escalante country

Utah's Grand Staircase turns 5

Grand Canyon development sparks debate

A bridge to disaster?

In place of a bigger park, Tucson gets houses

When parks close, towns lose

Grizzlies and tourism collide on Wyoming road

An urban park is surrounded by controversy

Babbitt takes a fall

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