Recreation
How many people over the centuries have loved the Pawnee Buttes, only to see them ravaged?
From charging bears to glacier-carved valleys, photographs capture the real nature of the national park.
How the government tackled the post-war threats of national park ‘disfigurement’ and ‘destruction.’
Locals and environmentalists are concerned about
development plans for a 400-acre resort right next to Mount Rainier
National Park and the little town of Ashford, Wash.
A new sport called sandboarding is becoming popular in
Park Service wilderness areas with dunes, and some worry that it is
a form of recreation "not compatible with wilderness
values."
The Conservation Fund is working with local ranchers to
remove cattle from Nevada's Great Basin National Park.
A revival of interest in explorers Lewis and Clark raises
questions about how to handle increased tourism on the National
Historic Trail through Montana - as well as questions about how the
history should be told.
Volunteers are needed to help maintain the Continental
Divide Trail from Montana to New Mexico.
In his new collection, "Fur and Loafing in Yosemite,"
cartoonist Phil Frank hilariously follows the adventures of
dysfunctional rangers, tourists and bears in Yosemite National
Park.
Bison biologist Mary Meagher joins conservationists, area
business people and snowmobilers in denouncing Yellowstone National
Park's new winter use plan.
Canyon Forest Village, a development near the south
entrance of the Grand Canyon, has been approved, but some
environmentalists plan to appeal the project.
Horses and riders are being crowded off Western trails by
mountain bikers and ORVers, and some have formed the Back Country
Horsemen group to fight back.
Some Moab, Utah, residents are up in arms about a
developer's plans for a new tourist tram with a visitor center,
store, restaurant and huge viewing deck at the top of the
ride.
Nine protesters are arrested for trying to block an access
road in the White River National Forest in an attempt to halt the
controversial expansion of the Vail Ski Area.
Almost 50 years after biologists dumped DDT on Yellowstone
Park to kill the spruce budworm moth, traces of the pesticide
remain in the ecosystem.
Colorado's congressional delegation calls for a get-tough
policy toward real estate developer Tom Chapman after a billboard
advertising lots for sale appears on the boundary of the Black
Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument.
Modern-day "robber barons" such as Tom Chapman will
continue to blackmail taxpayers by threatening to develop
wilderness and park inholdings - unless land-management agencies
summon the will to fight back.
Race-car driver Travis Panko's plan to build a race track
on a ranch near Stevensville, Mont., has many of his Bitterroot
Valley neighbors incensed.
In Park City, Utah, locals are irate at the ugliness of a
ski jump that is being carved out of a mountain for the 2002 Winter
Olympics.
Although boring food, banged-up bodies and origami maps
make camping a lot harder than it looks in the Dodge Dakota
commercials, something like a middle-of-the-night look at the Milky
Way makes all the trouble worthwhile.
Many environmentalists oppose Sen. Ben Nighthorse
Campbell's bill to turn Colorado's Black Canyon National Monument
into a national park, because the bill would allow continued
hunting, grazing and motorized recreation in some areas.
From May through October the Hansen Planetarium will host
monthly star parties and indoor slide presentations at Bryce Canyon
National Park in Utah.
Chief ranger Scot McElveen says local people should not
receive preference in a natural resource owned equally by all
citizens.
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