Archive

November, 2007

11/03/2007 - New Orleans Businesses Want National Park Service to Stop Free Tours
11/01/2007 - Park Service's Top Investigator Pleads Guilty To Theft
11/01/2007 - Watching Wolves in Yellowstone National Park
11/01/2007 - Giving a Name to Yosemite Area Peak for Longtime Ranger Carl Sharsmith.

October, 2007

10/31/2007 - Haunted House at Antietam National Battlefield?
10/31/2007 - Will Bear Costume Get Presidential Candidates Talking About National Parks?
10/31/2007 - Lyle Laverty Confirmed as Assistant Interior Secretary Over National Parks
10/31/2007 - Ghost at Blevins Farmstead; Excerpt From 'Haunted Hikes'
10/30/2007 - A Springtime Visit to Denali National Park and Preserve: Is It For You?
10/30/2007 - Letter from Congress Urges Director Bomar To Ban Snowmobiles from Yellowstone National Park
10/29/2007 - Big Cypress National Preserve: The Latest Battleground Over ORVs in the Parks
10/28/2007 - Quiet Time is Just Around the Corner at Acadia National Park
10/28/2007 - Trekking to Dick Proenneke's Cabin in Lake Clark National Park
10/26/2007 - Museum of the National Park Service Will be Built in West Virginia
10/26/2007 - Camping in Comfort: A Guide to Roughing It With Ease and Style
10/25/2007 - Hunting Across the National Park System: Good or Bad?
10/24/2007 - Video Tour of Lake Quinault Region of Olympic National Park
10/24/2007 - Lake Quinault Lodge: A Tale Of Two Rooms
10/23/2007 - Is New Jersey Delegation Unduly Forcing Great Falls of Paterson Park on NPS?
10/23/2007 - Kids Detached From Nature? Here's One Example
10/23/2007 - Leadership Summit: Some Afterthoughts
10/22/2007 - 60 Minutes : The Age of Megafires
10/22/2007 - Jumping Off Bridge an Annual Tradition in New River Gorge
10/22/2007 - Director Bomar: Let Science, Not Politics, Decide the Yellowstone Snowmobile Issue
10/21/2007 - November Lodging Deals To Be Found in Shenandoah National Park
10/19/2007 - Groups Sue Cape Hatteras National Seashore Over ORV Traffic
10/18/2007 - 2008 Marks 50 Years of Wolf, Moose Studies At Isle Royale National Park
10/17/2007 - Yellowstone Bison Population Healthy; Montana Priming For Hunts
10/17/2007 - Leadership Summit: Building For the Future
10/16/2007 - NPS Director Bomar Not Inclined to Overturn Yellowstone's Snowmobile Backing
10/16/2007 - What is YOUR Favorite Park Experience?
10/16/2007 - Leadership Summit: Excitement and Cheerleading, But....
10/15/2007 - Is America Failing the World's National Parks Movement?
10/15/2007 - Park Summit - Watch it Live!
10/15/2007 - Parks Philanthropy: It Shouldn't Only Be About Bricks and Mortar
10/14/2007 - National Park Foundation Leadership Summit: What Will it Foster?
10/13/2007 - Park Service Now Interested in Adding Christmas Mountains to Big Bend National Park
10/12/2007 - National Park Foundation to Host Conference on Philanthropy in the Parks
10/11/2007 - Alaska Regional Director Responds To Outrage Over Katmai Preserve Bear Hunt
10/11/2007 - PEER: Centennial Challenge Might Exacerbate Park Service's Backlog Woes
10/10/2007 - Visitation At Olympic National Park Up Nearly 16 Percent
10/09/2007 - 4-Year-old Dies in Fall off South Rim of Grand Canyon
10/09/2007 - Yellowstone Snowmobiles: Has Apathy Arrived?
10/08/2007 - NPS' Washington Headquarters Supports Snowmobiles in Yellowstone
10/08/2007 - Glacier National Park Is Not As Pristine As It Appears
10/08/2007 - Bryce Canyon's Navajo Loop Trail, Closed by a Rock Slide in 2006, Is Reopened
10/06/2007 - Katmai Bear Hunt: Outfitter Says It's No Walk in the Woods
10/05/2007 - Centennial Projects: Fighting Mosquitoes in Grand Teton National Park
10/05/2007 - Is the Bear "Hunt" in Katmai National Preserve Sporting or Ethical?
10/04/2007 - Biologists Count Fish In Olympic National Park's Elwha River -- Under Water!
10/04/2007 - Haleakala National Park Officials Institute Moratorium on Bike Tours
10/04/2007 - Is the Centennial Initiative Really Needed to Drum Up Support for the Parks?
10/03/2007 - Freak Rockfall Kills Colorado Couple At Glen Canyon NRA
10/03/2007 - Opposition Mounting to Higher Entrance Fee At Olympic National Park
10/03/2007 - Photo Shoot: Today's Cameras Make It Easier to Capture the National Parks
10/03/2007 - World War II Sites in the National Park System
10/02/2007 - NPS Officially Comes Out Against North Shore Road at Great Smoky Mountains National Park
10/02/2007 - Largest US Home Front Disaster During World War II May Be Next Park Unit
10/01/2007 - Fall Into Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone Kills California Woman
10/01/2007 - Isle Royale National Park Officials Trying to Protect Lake Superior from Non-Native Species
10/01/2007 - Commercial Tours Being Lined Up to Mark Civil War Anniversary
10/01/2007 - Will Greatness Mark the National Park Service's Next Century?

September, 2007

9/30/2007 - Lodging Deals Can be Had in the National Parks
9/29/2007 - Haleakala National Park Officials Call For Safety Summit For Bicyclists
9/29/2007 - Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park: A World Heritage Site in Danger?
9/29/2007 - Public Lands Day. Wahoo.
9/28/2007 - GOP's Fred Thompson Open To Drilling In Parks for Oil
9/28/2007 - Fall's Brightest Colors Descending on National Parks
9/27/2007 - Proposed Fee Increase for Crater Lake National Park Tabled
9/27/2007 - Longtime Yosemite Wilderness Ranger Retires
9/27/2007 - Satellite Image Captures 747 Above Yellowstone National Park
9/27/2007 - Bay Area Cartoonist with Yosemite Park Focus has Died
9/26/2007 - Death Valley May Be On Lookout For Steve Fosset
9/26/2007 - Death Valley Looking to Electronic Rangers to Raise Money, Lure Younger Generations
9/26/2007 - Developing Diversity in the National Parks
9/26/2007 - Tour Operators Get A Break From Higher Park Entrance Fees
9/25/2007 - Overdue Hiker Turns Up in Rocky Mountain National Park
9/25/2007 - Search for Hiker in Wrangell-St. Elias Suspended
9/24/2007 - NPS Snowmobile Plan for Yellowstone, Grand Teton Bucks Science, the Public, and Itself
9/24/2007 - Biodiversity Studies in the Parks Reveal Previously Unknown Species
9/22/2007 - Amusing Looking Sign on Blue Ridge Parkway
9/21/2007 - Padre Island Interpretive Program Simply Succeeds
9/21/2007 - Vietnam Veterans Memorial Vandalized
9/20/2007 - How Would YOU Fix the Statue of Liberty?
9/20/2007 - Arches and Canyonlands In the Fall: Rock Architecture and Dwindling Crowds
9/19/2007 - St Louis Wants to Develop Land under Gateway Arch
9/19/2007 - Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite
9/18/2007 - Management of Lady Liberty Discussed in Congress
9/17/2007 - This Just In : Fort Hancock STILL a Mess
9/17/2007 - Centennial Projects: Mountain Biking in Big Bend National Park
9/15/2007 - If You Have to Ask the Price, The Ahwahnee And Jenny Lake Lodge Are Probably Out of Reach
9/14/2007 - Olympic National Park Ready for Wolves?
9/13/2007 - Successful Search in Rocky Mountain National Park
9/13/2007 - Is There Any Better Time to Visit Yellowstone and Grand Teton Than Fall?
9/11/2007 - Dry Conditions Blamed For Bear Problems in Grand Teton, Yosemite
9/11/2007 - NPS Remembers 9-11 with Website
9/11/2007 - Grand Teton Puts Down Another Bear
9/10/2007 - The New NPCA Podcast
9/09/2007 - Two Drown on Yellowstone's Shoshone Lake
9/09/2007 - Around the System: Yellowstone's Snowmobiles, Everglades' Restoration, Glacier's Party, Valley Forge's Developers
9/08/2007 - Judge Orders Cross Removed from Mojave National Preserve
9/08/2007 - Olympic National Park Releases Environmental Assessment on Fisher Recovery
9/07/2007 - GAO: Interior Failed to Provide Park Service With Tools To Cope With Climate Change
9/07/2007 - Another Black Bear in Grand Teton Put Down
9/07/2007 - Soundscape : Frijoles Creek in Bandelier National Monument
9/06/2007 - The Secret Life of Drugs in Parks
9/06/2007 - Plan to Expand Civil War Museum Could Bring Artifacts to Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania NMP
9/05/2007 - Marketing Alaska's National Parks; Why Not All National Parks?
9/05/2007 - Federal Real ID May (Not) Be Required For Park Visit
9/05/2007 - Programming Note : 'Traveler' on the Radio Today
9/04/2007 - Search Under Way in Rocky Mountain National Park for Fort Collins Couple
9/04/2007 - Landscape, Not Wolf Numbers, Govern Wolf Hunts in Yellowstone
9/04/2007 - Grand Teton Bears, Update
9/03/2007 - Centennial Projects: Do They All Prepare the National Parks for the Next 100 Years?
9/03/2007 - At Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, The Facilities Seem Almost as Old as the Fossils
9/03/2007 - When Nature Calls, It's Hard to Find a Restroom on the National Mall

August, 2007

8/31/2007 - Blog Day 2007
8/31/2007 - Black Bear Put Down in Grand Teton. How Many Visitors Ticketed For Providing Food?
8/30/2007 - Should the NPS Be Given Mount St. Helens?
8/29/2007 - Yosemite Falls All Dried Up
8/29/2007 - Back in the Saddle
8/28/2007 - Interpretation on the Tallgrass Prairie
8/28/2007 - 10 Best Lodges in the National Parks
8/27/2007 - National Park Service to Charge for Clean Air?
8/25/2007 - 91st Anniversary for National Park Service
8/25/2007 - The Essential Death Valley
8/24/2007 - Voices from the Hill : Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne Announces Centennial Programs
8/24/2007 - Learning About the Parks, and Getting Credit for It, Too!
8/23/2007 - NPS Retirees Prepare for the Centennial Announcements
8/23/2007 - NPS Centennial Projects and Programs Announced
8/22/2007 - Mining, Nuclear Power, and Parks in the Balance
8/22/2007 - The Park Service's Historic Buildings Can Be Saved Without Resorting to Leases
8/21/2007 - Someday, Elwha River to Flow Free
8/20/2007 - Yosemite's Half Dome: Everything You Need to Successfully Hike Yosemite's Most Famous Landmark
8/20/2007 - The Consequences of the Legal Bear Hunt in Katmai
8/19/2007 - Celebrating the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park
8/17/2007 - Clara Barton's House Goes High-Tech
8/17/2007 - Stamps Celebrating Nature to be Unveiled at Rocky Mountain NP
8/15/2007 - Pot Farmers Tilling Ground in Yosemite
8/14/2007 - Missing Hiker in Yosemite Found Dead
8/14/2007 - Are Car Campers An Endangered Species in National Parks?
8/14/2007 - Interview with Nancy Bandley, Passport Stamp Collector and Busy Traveler
8/13/2007 - Fire Continues to Keep Yellowstone's East Entrance Closed
8/13/2007 - The Traveler's Code of Conduct
8/13/2007 - The Fight Against Fees Losses a Champion
8/12/2007 - How is Secretary Kempthorne Doing After Year One?
8/11/2007 - There's Plenty to Talk About
8/10/2007 - Like No Other Park in the System (I Hope)
8/09/2007 - Candlelight Vigil Planned for Harpers Ferry
8/09/2007 - Going Above and Beyond; Stewardship in the National Parks
8/08/2007 - Glacier NP Is Open For Business
8/08/2007 - Mammoth Cave Offering Free Tour on August 25
8/08/2007 - Vice President Cheney To Dedicate Grand Teton Visitor Center
8/07/2007 - Are Yellowstone's Geysers At Risk From BLM's Leasing Proposals?
8/07/2007 - How Much is that Campsite--Update
8/07/2007 - Russian Provides Perspective at Minuteman Missile Park
8/06/2007 - Search For Missing 80-year-old Yosemite Hiker Unfruitfull
8/04/2007 - Must We Clearly Set Out "Principles of Parks"?
8/03/2007 - Mount Rainier's Wonderland Trail Ready for Hikers
8/03/2007 - Voices From The Hill : NPS Director Mary Bomar
8/03/2007 - Mountain Lion Kittens Collared in Grand Canyon
8/02/2007 - S&R Blotter
8/02/2007 - What's Your Vision for the Centennial Initiative?
8/02/2007 - Protecting Grand Teton from Drilling Projects
8/01/2007 - Setting Precedents in the Parks
8/01/2007 - RS2477 And the National Parks
8/01/2007 - Y2Y On Display in Seattle

July, 2007

7/31/2007 - New Movie for World Ranger Day Today (Jul 31)
7/31/2007 - Hidden Hall of Records at Mount Rushmore
7/30/2007 - Art Allen's Parkland Watch
7/29/2007 - Website Administrative Note about Comment Spam
7/29/2007 - Statue of Liberty May Once Again Open to Top
7/28/2007 - And, Speaking of Volcanoes ... Audio Story at Lassen Volcanic
7/27/2007 - Mt St Helens as National Park?
7/26/2007 - Blue Angels Fly By Grand Tetons