Results for keyword: National Park Service
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Time to reform and repair
Paul Larmer reminds us that it will take more than a single environmental hero – like Tim DeChristopher, who cleverly sabotaged a BLM energy-lease auction – to reform the agency.
by Paul Larmer, Jan 05, 2009 -
This is the time to make land management make sense
Ed Quillen has suggestions for how to fix the West by consolidating the federal land agencies and charging people to build in Stupid Zones.
by Ed Quillen, Dec 22, 2008 -
Change we could believe in
How to fix the West by consolidating land agencies and charging people to build in Stupid Zones.
by Ed Quillen, Dec 22, 2008 -
Dodged bullets
On several environmental issues, the Bush administration failed to push through its agenda.
by Jodi Peterson , Dec 18, 2008 -
Watch the river flow
In western Colorado, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park wins an important water claim.
by Rob Inglis, Jul 18, 2008 -
Don’t be afraid of the big bad bears
Ben Long says the National Park Service is practically “bear-anoid,” the way it constantly warns tourists about newly awakened bears when there are so many other, more common dangers in the great outdoors.
by Ben Long, Apr 07, 2008 -
No way to run a national park
Tim Lydon wonders what happened to a recent environmental impact statement that may have irked railroads by favoring snowsheds over controlled avalanches in Glacier National Park.
by Tim Lydon, Mar 17, 2008 -
Unnatural Preservation
Public-land managers in the era of global warming face uncomfortable choices: Do they intervene to protect dying plants and animals, or stand back and let this new version of “nature” take its course?
by M. Martin Smith and Fiona Gow, Feb 04, 2008 -
Jim Detterline to the rescue
Park Ranger Jim Detterline battles the agency he loves over its insistence that a hearing impairment makes him unfit for his job.
by Michelle Blank, Dec 10, 2007 -
Voluntary excess
As its budget shrinks, the National Park Service relies more and more on volunteers – and critics say that is not necessarily healthy
by Amanda Leigh Haag, May 28, 2007






