Archive

June, 2006

6/29/2006 - It's Quick and It's Light
6/29/2006 - 50 Years of Highways and Mission 66
6/28/2006 - Stop Historical Illiteracy, Visit a Park
6/28/2006 - Find A Hike, Add A Hike
6/27/2006 - New Museum for Klondike Gold Rush
6/27/2006 - REI's Quarterdome Tent: Is It Really 2-Person?
6/27/2006 - Time Magazine Profiles Teddy Roosevelt
6/26/2006 - Looking For a PWC-Free Fourth?
6/25/2006 - Words Are Nice, But Show Us the Money!
6/24/2006 - Going On the Road
6/23/2006 - Honest Chief, Crooked Deputy?
6/22/2006 - Power Boaters Cry Foul Over MPs
6/22/2006 - Green President? Roger Kennedy Says No
6/21/2006 - Fran Places Her Spin On the MPs
6/21/2006 - New Plants and Cleaner Air
6/21/2006 - Scarlett: Parks Are Better Off Than a Decade Ago
6/21/2006 - Park Service River Stories on NPR
6/20/2006 - What Will Dirk Do?
6/20/2006 - Could the Park Service Follow The Forest Service Down the Privatization Road?
6/20/2006 - Small Victories
6/19/2006 - The Latest On Revising the MPs
6/19/2006 - Fran And Lipton Tea
6/18/2006 - Mainstream Media Finally Examining Park Issues
6/18/2006 - Woman Falls to Her Death in Yellowstone
6/16/2006 - Weather Slowing Road Opening in Glacier NP
6/16/2006 - NPS Response to Retirees: Thanks for Your Interest
6/16/2006 - NPS Visit : Is Your Safety at Risk?
6/15/2006 - What National Park Experience Will You Have this Summer?
6/15/2006 - Pedaling in Yellowstone: Good Idea, or Trouble On Two Wheels?
6/15/2006 - Dubya Creates Ocean Monument
6/14/2006 - "Forever in peace may you wave"
6/14/2006 - Out and About in the Parks
6/14/2006 - LA Times Asks : Where are the Rangers?
6/13/2006 - Be Active!
6/12/2006 - Soon, More Olympic National Park to Love
6/12/2006 - FLASH: Parks Are Good For Your Health!
6/12/2006 - Search For Missing Denali Climbers Turns Into Recovery Mission
6/12/2006 - Fran: Getting Physical In the Parks
6/11/2006 - Patagonia and Potter Apologize for Arches Climb
6/11/2006 - Turning the National Parks Over to Volunteers
6/10/2006 - ABC News Asks : Where are the Rangers?
6/09/2006 - Devil's Hole Pupfish Breeding Not Going Well
6/09/2006 - Antiquities Act in the News
6/09/2006 - Plowing Update on Glacier's "Sun Road"
6/09/2006 - Should Kalaloch Lodge at Olympic Be Moved?
6/08/2006 - Vanity Fair's View of the Dysfunctional NPS
6/08/2006 - What's Wrong With This Picture?
6/08/2006 - Roger Kennedy's Antiquities Act Speech
6/07/2006 - Osprey's Aether 70: A Pack Easy on the Back
6/07/2006 - Glacier National Park, Or "Goat" National Park?
6/06/2006 - Kemp's Ridley Turtles Nesting More
6/06/2006 - Antiquities Act : A Loophole to Treasure
6/06/2006 - Snake River Accident Investigation Continues
6/06/2006 - Mr. Kempthorne and the Parks
6/05/2006 - Quantifying the Antiquities Act
6/05/2006 - Air Quality: Is Rocky Mountain NP Superintendent Overstepping His Role?
6/05/2006 - Potter Speaks About Arches Climb
6/04/2006 - Highway 140 To Yosemite Expected to Be Closed All Summer
6/04/2006 - Yellowstone's Future: Where Will Climate Change Take the Park?
6/04/2006 - Some Additions to Traveler
6/04/2006 - Victims Identified in Grand Teton Rafting Accident
6/02/2006 - Three Dead in Grand Teton Rafting Accident
6/02/2006 - Was Potter Using Delicate Arch As A Commercial Backdrop?
6/02/2006 - Getting to Yosemite Made Tougher By Rock Slide
6/02/2006 - Rebuilding Paradise, Let the Work Begin!
6/02/2006 - Looney for Loons?
6/02/2006 - Antiquities Act : NPS Takes Control
6/01/2006 - Two Searches, Two Happy Endings
6/01/2006 - June is Antiquities Act Month
6/01/2006 - National Trails Day From Another View

May, 2006

5/31/2006 - Glacier Bear Study Inadvertently Kills Grizzly
5/31/2006 - Have Google Send You Park News
5/30/2006 - Park Budget Woes Getting ABC Coverage
5/30/2006 - Deadly Weekend in the Parks
5/29/2006 - Of Percentages, Budgets And Privatizing Parks
5/29/2006 - MSR's Miox Purifier
5/28/2006 - How 'Bout San Rafael National Park?
5/26/2006 - Out Field Testing
5/26/2006 - Torturing the Park System?
5/26/2006 - Must be Memorial Day Weekend
5/26/2006 - Cell Phones in Wilderness Areas
5/25/2006 - "Deals Can Still Be Had"
5/24/2006 - Will Energy Corridors Cross Parks?
5/23/2006 - Rocky Mountain NP's Elk Problem
5/23/2006 - Great Smoky NP To Continue Elk Experiment
5/22/2006 - A Park Blogger Worth Reading
5/22/2006 - Politics Trump Parks
5/22/2006 - Search This Blog!
5/22/2006 - Dinosaur National Monument: Dust to Dust?
5/21/2006 - Park License Plates: Take II
5/21/2006 - Devil's Tower and the Schoodic Peninsula
5/20/2006 - Park Ranger Trading Cards
5/19/2006 - Pupfish Moved Into Captivity
5/18/2006 - Natural Bridges Campground Reopened After Plague Detection
5/18/2006 - Channel Island Hunting Opposition
5/17/2006 - Yosemite, Huangshan National Parks Sign Cooperative Agreement
5/17/2006 - German Tourist Dies at Death Valley
5/17/2006 - Olympic Hiker Survives 3 Nights With Broken Leg
5/17/2006 - How Good Is the Air Quality Over the Parks?
5/16/2006 - Montanans Take The Lead to Preserve Habitat, Fend Off CoalBed Methane Development
5/16/2006 - Can National Parks and Video Games Find Common Ground?
5/16/2006 - Grand Canyon Visitor Dies In South Rim Fall
5/15/2006 - Devil's Hole Pupfish Betting On Survival
5/15/2006 - Air Tours: A Losing Proposition For the NPS
5/14/2006 - Utah Wants to Sell Drilling Lease Under Green River Along Dinosaur Monument
5/13/2006 - Plowing Continues on Glacier's "Sun" Road
5/12/2006 - Book Club: Hey Ranger Review
5/12/2006 - Access Fund Condemns Delicate Arch Stunt
5/12/2006 - Yellowstone Debate: Kill Cutthroats to Save Cutthroats?
5/11/2006 - Confederate General Gets Waxed
5/11/2006 - Fence To Keep Animals Out of Haleakala Rain Forest Finished
5/11/2006 - Happy Birthday Glacier NP!
5/10/2006 - Of Trains and Arches in Utah's Parks
5/10/2006 - National Parks Versus Videogames: Who Wins?
5/09/2006 - An Expensive Road Trip Awaits
5/09/2006 - Mesa Verde Getting Ready for Birthday Bash
5/09/2006 - More and More Parks Finding Going Tough, Financially
5/09/2006 - Climber Scales Delicate Arch
5/08/2006 - National Parks With Kids
5/07/2006 - Pesticides in the Parks
5/07/2006 - Check Out Two-Heel Drive
5/06/2006 - Capitol Reef Superintendent Objects to Drilling on Park's Border
5/06/2006 - Blue Ridge Parkway: Wear Your Support on Your Car
5/05/2006 - Sequoia Lodging Deal
5/05/2006 - Santa Rosa Island Showdown
5/04/2006 - Cell Phones Arrive in the Nation's Parks
5/04/2006 - House Subcommittee's Parks Funding Rec Disappointing
5/03/2006 - National Park Week, I Missed It!
5/03/2006 - Senators Hope to Clear The Air, Parks Should Benefit
5/03/2006 - Conservation Groups Sue to Get Yellowstone Trout Protection
5/03/2006 - Yosemite Waterfalls Outstanding This Spring
5/03/2006 - Yellowstone and Cell Phones: So Goes Solitude?
5/02/2006 - Let the Confirmation Show Begin!
5/02/2006 - Rep. Hunter Still Taking Aim on Channel Islands NP
5/02/2006 - Testing the Product
5/01/2006 - USS Arizona Memorial Wins Museum Award

April, 2006

4/30/2006 - Tough Times in Acadia NP
4/29/2006 - Sampling Air Pollution in the Parks
4/29/2006 - Customize that Pass
4/28/2006 - Grading the Parks
4/27/2006 - What Would the Bull Moose Think?
4/27/2006 - Pilfering the Parks and Other Historic Places
4/27/2006 - Yellowstone Yellow Bus Update
4/26/2006 - Bush Administration's Handling of NPS Slammed Again
4/25/2006 - The Antiquities Act
4/25/2006 - Yellowstone's Yellow Buses
4/25/2006 - Car Camping and Quiet are a Challenging Pair
4/24/2006 - Everglades Failures
4/24/2006 - NPCA Offers Field Guide for California's Desertscape
4/24/2006 - Rocky Mountain NP Officials Propose to Shoot Elk
4/23/2006 - So What if the NPS Needs to Cinch Its Financial Belt?
4/22/2006 - Philly Inquirer Adds its Voice of Discontent over NPS Plight
4/21/2006 - Here's a Parks Traveler...
4/21/2006 - See the Stars at White Sands NM
4/21/2006 - Watch Out for Those Recreation Fees
4/20/2006 - Park Budget is Depressing
4/20/2006 - Light Pollution Washes Out Night Sky Over Joshua Tree
4/20/2006 - Courting International Visitors Is A Tough Sell These Days
4/19/2006 - Climbing The Grand: Been There, Done That
4/19/2006 - NPS Appropriations: Increases Sought
4/19/2006 - Park Philanthropy: Where Is It Heading?
4/18/2006 - Is The National Park System Headed for Yard Sales?
4/18/2006 - Will Glen Canyon be Restored?
4/17/2006 - Lake Mead Mountain Lions
4/17/2006 - Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Water Trail
4/17/2006 - Grand Canyon Traffic Jams
4/16/2006 - Of Pigs and Parks
4/14/2006 - National Parks and License Plates
4/14/2006 - Yellowstone to Yukon: Freedom to Roam
4/13/2006 - Old Faithful To Get New Visitor Center
4/13/2006 - Talking Points...and Points of Concern
4/12/2006 - Park Visitation, Part Two
4/12/2006 - Following Muir to Yosemite on Foot
4/10/2006 - Park Visitation Trends: Is There a Problem?
4/10/2006 - IRS Confirms: Parks are an Expensive Visit