Who rewrote Park Service’s management policies?;
judge permits building of U.S.-Mexico border fence; Superintendent
David Hunsaker leaves Utah’s Escalante National Monument;
judge says Forest Service blew his ruling out of
proportion
National Park Service
The very places that attract visitors and newcomers for their proximity to wildlife grapple with a spike in bear-human incidents.
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Law enforcement agents guarding wildlife refuges have been sent to the border, leaving public lands more exposed.
Conservationists fear that the new National Park Service
management policy will reduce environmental protection at the
expense of commercial interests
In the wake of a confrontation over a camping fee that
ended in a tourist’s death, a former park ranger remembers a
frightening incident from his own career
In To Save the Wild Bison, Mary Ann Franke traces the controversial history of Yellowstone National Park’s wild bison herd
The Park Service lands in hot water when Deputy Assistant
Interior Secretary Paul Hoffman secretly rewrites the
agency’s management manual, and the revision is leaked to the
press
A Colorado park ranger takes note of a growing practice:
scattering the ashes of the dead on publicly owned land
The writer says Delicate Arch barely escaped a glue-based
makeover
The National Park Service has agreed to explore opening
some of the parks to mountain biking
The writer takes issue with Interior Secretary Gale Norton
for seeing only motors when she tours Yellowstone National
Park
Hovenweep National Monument in remote southeastern Utah
narrowly escapes an attempt to lease nearby land for oil and gas
drilling
As soon as the National Park Service announced its new
snowmobile rules – which slightly reduce the number of
vehicles allowed in Yellowstone and Grand Teton – lawsuits
began flying from both sides of the political divide
U.S. Park Police Chief Teresa Chambers is reprimanded, and
then fired, after she speaks openly about the Park Service’s
budget problems
Former Park Service workers say the agency is being hurt
by budget cuts, but that employees are under orders from
headquarters to hide the problems
The writer explores garbage on public lands and wonders
what makes some of it archaeological treasures
The West’s endless tug-of-war between scenery and
resources is brought into dramatic focus at Colorado’s Black
Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
The writer sees an object lesson in a national park that
has a "dual, if not dueling" mission
National Park Service wilderness coordinator Jim Walters
resigns in frustration over the agency’s neglect of
wilderness, after the superintendent of Sequoia and Kings Canyon
National Parks allows helicopters in wilderness areas
In South Dakota, Wind Cave National Park has been trying
to purchase the neighboring Casey Ranch, but approval of the sale
has stalled in Congress, and now the ranch is for sale on the open
market
Park managers plan to increase the number of agency
helicopter and airplane flights over Glacier National Park this
summer
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