Archive

October, 2006

10/15/2006 - Where to Visit This Winter?
10/14/2006 - New York Moves to Control Transmission Corridors
10/13/2006 - Gateway Arch is Pink with Embarrassment
10/13/2006 - Who Else Should Join Pombo and Pearce on the Sidelines?
10/12/2006 - Yellowstone Readying for Winter
10/12/2006 - Wintertime Fun Across The Parks
10/12/2006 - Mary Bomar and Fort Hancock
10/11/2006 - DOI Blocking Web Access?
10/11/2006 - Scout Leader Banned from National Parks
10/10/2006 - Your National Parks Pass Doesn't Always Cover Your Entrance Fee
10/10/2006 - Silence is Golden on Park Rivers
10/10/2006 - Send Mr. Pearce Back to the Oilfields
10/09/2006 - 'Pay to Play' Interpretation is a Bad Idea
10/09/2006 - Time For A Change: Send Mr. Pombo Packing
10/06/2006 - Burlington Northern's Bombing Plans For Glacier, Part Two
10/06/2006 - The New York Times, Mary, and Politics
10/06/2006 - Exhibit Opens for Ice Age Floods Geologic Trail
10/05/2006 - Above Ground at Mammoth Cave
10/05/2006 - Get To Know Congressman Pearce
10/04/2006 - Scary Bird Story in North Cascades NP
10/04/2006 - Rep. Pearce Carries Water For Sagebrushers
10/04/2006 - Book Club Returns with Last Child in the Woods
10/03/2006 - Groups Want Contractor Who Bulldozed Harpers Ferry Park Sued
10/03/2006 - Railroad Wants To Bomb Glacier
10/02/2006 - Yosemite's Merced River Plan, And Other Legal Contortions
10/02/2006 - Keeping Track of Visitors: No Easy Task
10/02/2006 - Senate says 'Yes' to Bomar

September, 2006

9/30/2006 - What Became of Ranger Gord?
9/30/2006 - Channel Islands Hunting Preserve Nears Reality
9/30/2006 - Yosemite Fund Gives $3.5 Million To Yosemite; Is That A Good Thing?
9/30/2006 - Senate Confirms Mary as NPS Director
9/29/2006 - Any NPS Budget Dollars Left for History?
9/29/2006 - Pupfish Numbers Rebound
9/28/2006 - Mary And Snowmobiles
9/28/2006 - Sequoia's Cave: Some More Details
9/28/2006 - Podcast for Parks = ParkCast
9/28/2006 - Spreading the Light: Brunton's Liberty Lantern
9/27/2006 - Dirk and Mary's Wonderful Road Show!
9/27/2006 - Why is Bomar Laughing?
9/26/2006 - Mary Talks...And It's Not All Good
9/25/2006 - Sequoia's New Cave is Pretty Spectacular
9/25/2006 - Mary and Transparency
9/25/2006 - Devils Tower Time Lapse
9/24/2006 - Transmission Lines and Parks
9/24/2006 - Mount Rainier Superintendent Wants Big Changes in Next Decade
9/23/2006 - Said Lewis to Clark, "Are we there yet?"
9/22/2006 - Park Service Explores the Thorny Issue of Benefits Sharing
9/22/2006 - Beaver Are Booming in Yellowstone, But Why?
9/22/2006 - Katmai NP : Another Gem in Alaska's Crown
9/21/2006 - Bomar Nomination Hearing Goes Smooth
9/21/2006 - Judge: DOI Erred In Giving Away Water Rights at Black Canyon of the Gunnison NP
9/21/2006 - Fran's Handing Off More Red Ink to Mary
9/21/2006 - You let me say that?
9/20/2006 - National Geographic: Over The Top?
9/20/2006 - Jim Hightower Says Parks are Being Trashed
9/19/2006 - Grand Teton Outlines Transportation Plan
9/19/2006 - Bomar Confirmation Hearing Set for Thursday
9/19/2006 - National Geographic On Parks
9/19/2006 - National Geographic Says Parks are in Peril
9/18/2006 - Grand Canyon Launches Website for Non-commercial Float Permits
9/18/2006 - Blue Ridge Parkway: Running Out of Staff?
9/18/2006 - The Big Melt: Keep An Eye on Mt. Rainier, North Cascades
9/17/2006 - NPS Congressional Subcommittee Testimony
9/16/2006 - The Keys to the Kingdom
9/16/2006 - Cool Cave Photography
9/15/2006 - Lake Clark NP : A Perfect Little Gem
9/14/2006 - "Dogs and Cats Living Together"
9/14/2006 - Park Visitation: Some Bright Ideas?
9/14/2006 - Are Public Land Fees Legal?
9/13/2006 - Is Altruism Dying?
9/13/2006 - The Latest Lodging "Deals"
9/13/2006 - Get To Know Congressman Pombo
9/12/2006 - Park Visitation Hearing: Deja Vu All Over Again?
9/11/2006 - Park Profiteering Has Always Been Unethical
9/11/2006 - Did Park Service Capitulate to PWCs at Cape Lookout?
9/10/2006 - The Fate of Apostle Islands' Lighthouses
9/10/2006 - Small Rockslide closes Road in Yellowstone
9/10/2006 - Great Smokies Elk Revisited
9/10/2006 - New Cave Discovered in Sequoia/Kings Canyon
9/09/2006 - Sen. Thomas Trying to Get Substantial Investment in the Parks
9/08/2006 - Tall Trees are Cool
9/08/2006 - Keep To the Script, Folks
9/08/2006 - Backpacker's Chocolate: A Trailside Luxury
9/07/2006 - Mary's Nomination Warmly Met
9/07/2006 - Great Smokies Bears Could be Troublesome
9/07/2006 - Your Feedback
9/07/2006 - What Are Those Rats Doing Now?
9/06/2006 - Mercury Contaminating Fish in Voyageurs NP
9/06/2006 - Bomar Nominated To Succeed Fran
9/06/2006 - Next NPS Director? Not Me :(
9/05/2006 - ARC: NPS Not Meeting Americans' Spiritual, Mental and Physical Needs
9/05/2006 - Fran Did Not Instill Confidence In Her Employees
9/05/2006 - Could Great Smokies Elk Herd Vanish?
9/05/2006 - Conservation 1, ARC 0
9/04/2006 - Where the Wild Things Are
9/04/2006 - Details Surfacing in Fatal Snake River Rafting Accident
9/04/2006 - Recent Falling Deaths Rocky Mountain, Zion and Grand Canyon

August, 2006

8/31/2006 - Are Entrance Fees Behind Visitation Slump?
8/31/2006 - Those Pesky Management Policies
8/31/2006 - The Chainsaw Recreation League Speaks Out
8/31/2006 - Yellowstone Room Glut
8/31/2006 - Yellowstone Fire Forces Trail Closures
8/31/2006 - Is Mary Bomar Up for NPS Director's Job?
8/30/2006 - The End of the Earth
8/28/2006 - Old National Park Postcards
8/27/2006 - Of Committees and Campaigns
8/25/2006 - Happy Birthday to the National Park Service
8/25/2006 - Nancy's Alaska Journey to Yukon Charlie Rivers
8/25/2006 - Happy Birthday NPS?
8/24/2006 - Developers Bulldoze Portion of Harpers Ferry Historical Park
8/24/2006 - The Unforgiving Grand Canyon
8/24/2006 - Wild Wilderness Blog
8/23/2006 - Woman Dies in Fall From Angel's Landing
8/22/2006 - Let's Talk About Balancing Conservation and Recreation
8/22/2006 - Mr. Pearce's Blinders
8/21/2006 - What Do Park Concessionaires Want?
8/21/2006 - Rep. Pearce Proposes Changes to Management Policies
8/19/2006 - Are Concessionaires Trying to Destroy the Parks?
8/18/2006 - Top Trails: Yellowstone & Grand Teton
8/18/2006 - Nancy's Journey Continues to Wrangell - St. Elias
8/17/2006 - Java Juice Delivers Fresh Brew in the Backcountry
8/17/2006 - Million Acre View
8/16/2006 - NPCA Releases Its View On Air Quality in the Parks
8/15/2006 - Use Guidelines for Cell Phones in Parks
8/15/2006 - Glacier, Yellowstone Fire Update
8/15/2006 - Study Shows Winter Motorized Rec Rules on Forest Service Lands
8/14/2006 - More Lodging Deals
8/14/2006 - National Parks Generate $10 Billion Annually
8/13/2006 - Human-Powered Recreation Has Economic Clout
8/11/2006 - Kempthorne Non-Committal On Management Policies
8/11/2006 - Who'll Succeed Fran?
8/11/2006 - The OR's Back in Town
8/11/2006 - Alaska Journey to Kenai Fjords
8/10/2006 - Interview with Lewis & Clark Interpreter
8/09/2006 - Park Lodging Deals on the Horizon
8/09/2006 - Rep. Souder Heading Back on the Road
8/08/2006 - Boom City : Follow-Up
8/08/2006 - The Last Season
8/08/2006 - How Much Cell Phone Coverage Does Yellowstone Need?
8/08/2006 - Red Eagle Fire 65 Percent Contained
8/07/2006 - Boom City
8/07/2006 - More Dino Tracks Found in Denali
8/06/2006 - NPS Directors and Fran's Departure
8/05/2006 - A Park Blogger With Some Humor
8/05/2006 - Not All NPS Directors Were Lapdogs
8/05/2006 - Sen. Akaka Tries to Halt Air Flights over Hawaii's National Parks
8/05/2006 - Red Eagle Fire Update
8/05/2006 - Valley Forge, Brought to You By Lipton Tea!
8/04/2006 - Poll: Overwhelming Majority Wants Limits on Snowmobile Access
8/04/2006 - Is ARC Making Last-Gasp Effort to Derail MPs?
8/04/2006 - Montana OKs Larger Bison Hunt
8/04/2006 - Colter Bay Cabins: Nice, But Hot
8/04/2006 - NPS Horses on Half-Rations
8/04/2006 - There is One NPS Unit Flush With Funding
8/04/2006 - Alaska Journey Continues to Juneau
8/03/2006 - Red Eagle Fire Update
8/02/2006 - Let's Sell the Parks!
8/02/2006 - Funding the NPS: How Much is Enough?
8/02/2006 - Secretary Kempthorne, Consider Me for NPS Director
8/01/2006 - Private Interests to the Rescue?
8/01/2006 - Glacier, Yellowstone Fire Update
8/01/2006 - Body Found in Grand Canyon Could Be That of Missing Hiker
8/01/2006 - Infographic: If Parks Were Pixels

July, 2006

7/31/2006 - Dirk Caught Off-Guard By MPs
7/31/2006 - Red Eagle Fire Raging Over More than 22,000 Acres
7/31/2006 - Cutting Trees in Gettysburg
7/30/2006 - Paralyzed Vets Not Interesting In Channel Island Hunting
7/30/2006 - NPS Fire Roundup
7/30/2006 - Red Eagle Fire On The Run
7/29/2006 - Apostle Islands Tapping Biodiesel For Boats
7/29/2006 - Fire in Glacier NP Could Spur St. Mary's Evacuation
7/29/2006 - Arches NP Spared View of Drilling Rigs
7/28/2006 - Alaska Journey Continues to Ketchikan
7/27/2006 - The Complete Guide to the National Park Lodges
7/27/2006 - Fire Near Olympic Closes Staircase Area