The Web site of PEER - Public Employees for Environmental
Responsibility - features a report on increasing violence against
National Park Service employees, along with other topics.
National Park Service
A photographer and audio researchers document the soundscapes of remote national parks in Alaska.
A recent study documented 259 fatalities worldwide caused by people taking selfies.
Unethical killing of bears and wolves is not responsible wildlife management.
The Bush administration wants to permanently install user
fees for recreation on public lands, but opponents are speaking
out.
A cross placed on Mojave National Preserve by Veterans of
Foreign Wars as a memorial is the center of controversy between the
National Park Service and the American Civil Liberties Union, which
claims it violates the separation of church and state.
Cottonwood trees in Utah's Zion National Park may vanish
in the next few decades, according to a study by the park and the
Grand Canyon Trust that recommends removal of flood-protection
stone levees as a way to save the trees.
The late Paul Fritz is remembered as a conservationist
whose years in the Park Service reflect a man who was independent
and outspoken.
Migrants crossing the Sonoran Desert leave litter and
cause ever-increasing damage, as seen in Organ Pipe Cactus National
Monument.
Grand Canyon's backcountry and river planning effort ends
abruptly when Park Superintendent Robert Arnberger decides the
process, which includes outfitters, private boaters and wilderness
advocates, is "too contentious."
The National Park Service wants to preserve the wagon
ruts, campsites, graves and scenery along 13,000 miles of historic
trails in the West.
The Park Service has completed a new General Management
Plan that will guide resource management in Glacier National Park
for the next few decades.
A Park Service team conducted an "oversight review" of
Petroglyph National Monument that cited "communication and morale"
as big problems for employees.
In her own words, Petroglyph National Monument Supervisor
Judith Cordova defends her record on the job.
Chief ranger Scot McElveen says local people should not
receive preference in a natural resource owned equally by all
citizens.
Longtime Death Valley resident Janice Allen believes the
area is not helped by its designation as a national park.
Park enemies in Congress reduced the budget for the new
Mojave National Preserve to one dollar - an extreme example of the
way Congress often creates parks and monuments but is reluctant to
provide any money to support them.
Death Valley Park Superintendent Dick Martin says the park
rangers are heroes.
Longtime park volunteer Reuben Scolnik says the park
officials are good people but too rigid.
Local resident Kathy Goss is disillusioned by the way
environmentalists pushed the Desert Protection Act.
Local resident Jim Macey believes park status has actually
harmed Death Valley.
Death Valley environmental specialist Dick Anderson
defends the Desert Protection Act as necessary to save wild
lands.
Eccentric desert rats and clean-cut park rangers sometimes
meet in a culture clash over how to manage one of the hottest,
driest and strangest places in North America - Death Valley
National Park.
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