The Park Service has completed a new General Management
Plan that will guide resource management in Glacier National Park
for the next few decades.
National Park Service
Even orange peels be damned — don’t toss your food on the trail.
A company is cashing in on prized public lands by fleecing American taxpayers.
Wilderness managers are still trying to balance the risks and necessity of fire.
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.
Canyonlands Superintendent Walt Dabney has proposed to
more than double the park's size by redrawing its boundaries along
natural features.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has
cited Yellowstone National Park for violating safety regulations
for its employees.
Beleaguered by budget cuts, the Park Service is trying to
use increased user fees to create volunteer programs like the
Public Lands Corps, to help with trail building and other
maintenance projects.
Rocky Mountain National Park officials are getting a lot
of flak for permitting a crew of soil scientists to helicopter
their way into a wilderness study area.
In Wyoming, Grand Teton National Park officials and
environmentalists are battling airline representatives who want to
expand the runway at the Jackson Hole Airport, which is located
inside the park.
Congress is slow to act on the chance to purchase and
protect New Mexico's Valles Caldera - also known as the Baca
Ranch.
Northern New Mexico's Valles Caldera is for sale, and many
think the world's largest extinct volcano ought to become the
nation's next national park.
Bill Everhart's "Take Down Flag & Feed Horses" offers
a refreshing view of life with the National Park Service,
especially in Yellowstone National Park.
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