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03/22/2009 - 4:15pmNational Park Designation is an Unholy MessGood suggestion, RW. Environmental historian Alfred Runte has written a number of books that bear reading -- and rereading. One of my personal favorites is "Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness." The 1993 paperback edition is still widely available.
03/22/2009 - 8:55amNational Park Designation is an Unholy MessJess, I find it hard to accept that every state, a priori, "deserves" to have at least one national park. Political subdivisions have little to do with the distribution of natural and cultural/historical resources meeting the standards set for NPS units. That said, I do understand that there is enormous ...
03/20/2009 - 3:32pmNational Park Designation is an Unholy MessThanks, MRC. I understand everything clearly now........... I think.
03/20/2009 - 11:55amNational Park Designation is an Unholy MessFrank, I must admit that I'm out of my depth on this one. Perhaps a Traveler reader more familiar with these trademark and copyright issues might want to chime in?
03/20/2009 - 7:34amNational Park Designation is an Unholy MessDave, as Kurt has said, the posts you'll see on Traveler fairly soon will address the NPS unit designation and redesignation issues in a more comprehensive and proactive way. Rest assured that we have some specific suggestions for improving and standardizing NPS unit designation. We assume that Traveler readers have ...
03/20/2009 - 6:31amNational Park Designation is an Unholy MessInteresting post, Frank, but your dreams of having a national park named in your honor are just that -- dreams. If you tried to use that name for your park, the Interior department would file charges on you for the fraudulent offering of federal services. Incidentally, there's been a lot ...
03/18/2009 - 12:11pmNational Park System Quiz 46: GlaciersSorry to rain on your parade, Rick, but I couldn't help using drumlins in this quiz. They're a depositional feature that I've been familiar with for a very long time. Growing up in Michigan, I hunted, fished, and vacationed in an area of the state (northwestern Lower Peninsula) that has ...
03/18/2009 - 9:42amNational Park Designation is an Unholy MessI get your point(s), Beamis. However, with all all due respect, I will continue to believe that branding matters, and that having a designation system that makes sense is better than having one that does not.
03/16/2009 - 2:48pmNational Park System Quiz 45: GreenWell, Rick, I did sit in that little amphitheater at the natural entrance and watch about a gazillion Mexican free-tail bats fly out at dusk to forage for mosquitoes and such. That should count for something, right?
03/16/2009 - 1:29pmNational Park System Quiz 45: GreenJohn: I forgot to mention to mention that I've already seen your fine park. I was with that University of South Carolina tour group that came through in July 1985 -- the ones who arrived almost too late to catch the last elevator of the day down to the Big ...
03/16/2009 - 5:00amBelieve it or Not, Yosemite National Park Once had a ZooGrinnel wasn't wrong, and neither are the stewards of today's National Park System. National parks preserve habitat, enabling visitors to encounter animals and birds in their "natural" surroundings and watch them interact with each other. Holding wild animals in captivity for the entertainment of visitors is a practice that falls ...
03/15/2009 - 6:33pmNational Park System Quiz 45: GreenJohn, we have referred your remark to our Complaint Department, where I'm confident it will get all the attention that it deserves. Be sure to let us know if you don't get a reply within six weeks. Refer to complaint #031509-10363.
03/13/2009 - 8:46amNational Park Service Ban on Lead Ammo, Fishing Gear Draws Ire of Shooting Sports FoundationI like levity as much as the next guy, Mark, but when you equate a very toxic substance like lead to chewing gum, well, that's just not the least bit funny.
03/06/2009 - 6:51amBelieve it or Not, Yosemite National Park Once had a ZooThe conservationist ethic is a great legacy, Redwood. I know that many people would find it odd that a professional lion hunter could be a conservationist, but I most emphatically do not. This was the 1920s, after all, a time when truly scientific wildlife management was a distant dream and ...
03/05/2009 - 8:39amKlondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Lands Windfall In Donation of Historic Buildings, MemorabiliaSoapy Smith was unquestionably one of the most interesting characters that America's frontier culture ever produced.
03/04/2009 - 6:54pmNational Park System Quiz 44: Potpourri IIGood job, Barky. You'll soon be ready to take over as Quizmeister. That site you referred to (full name Lower East Side Tenement National Historic Site) is an Affiliated Area.
03/01/2009 - 9:31amBelieve it or Not, Yosemite National Park Once had a ZooI'll bet there are hundreds of similar photos out there. (I vaguely recall seeing a photo of a ranger petting a deer in that Yosemite "zoo.") I'd especially like to see a photo of kids with the mountain lion.
02/26/2009 - 12:01pmBelieve it or Not, Yosemite National Park Once had a ZooYou've got a good memory, Anon. That zoo on Dot Island in Yellowstone Lake was shut down 102 years ago after operating for about 10 or 11 years.
02/26/2009 - 10:17amTredegar Ironworks: A Civil War Icon Preserved at Richmond National Battlefield ParkI'll surely visit Richmond before too long, but not to "set a spell." My wife insists that I need to do at least 10,000 steps a day if I'm to have any hope of getting rid of this paunch.
02/25/2009 - 5:12pmNational Park System Quiz 43: NamesWe try to include something for everybody, including people who enjoy a cheap shot now and then. ;-)
02/24/2009 - 11:01amMystery Plant: Will This “Lime-Green Cancer” Derail Everglades Restoration?Thanks for the information and that amazing photo, Anon. There's clearly a lot more to this Lygodium business than meets the eye. I'll watch for updates and hope that some sort of breakthrough will soon happen on the biological control front. Meanwhile I've made a few edits to the article ...
02/24/2009 - 10:07amTredegar Ironworks: A Civil War Icon Preserved at Richmond National Battlefield ParkIf you'd like to see before-and-after photos of Tregedar Ironworks --in its heyday and then lying in ruins, that is -- visit [url]http://web.ukonline.co.uk/b.gardner/tredegar/trediron.htm[/url].
02/24/2009 - 9:46amMystery Plant: Will This “Lime-Green Cancer” Derail Everglades Restoration?I won't hold you to that promise, Donna. If they ever start enforcing a "learn before you speak" rule here at NPT, I'll be out of business!
02/24/2009 - 5:48amTredegar Ironworks: A Civil War Icon Preserved at Richmond National Battlefield ParkRichmond is definitely on my list, dap. I want to check out Tredegar (including that museum) for myself, but mostly I want to explore Richmond. At one time or another I've visited nearly all the battlefields in your area, but it's been a looooooong time since I've been in your ...
02/23/2009 - 12:38pmNational Park Quiz 38: African AmericansThanks for the feedback, Denny. I had no idea that the Wrights and Dunbar were classmates.
02/23/2009 - 12:34pmMystery Plant: Will This “Lime-Green Cancer” Derail Everglades Restoration?Kudzu is a whole 'nuther matter, RAH. Being a South Carolina resident, I'm thoroughly familiar with "the plant that ate the South." Some people say that you can only kill kudzu by driving a stake through it's heart, but I suspect that may be an exaggeration. I've seen goats used ...
02/23/2009 - 11:05amTredegar Ironworks: A Civil War Icon Preserved at Richmond National Battlefield ParkNice article, dapster. Makes me want to go back to Richmond and take a closer look. I'm very interested in the American Civil War Center Museum. You only mentioned it in passing, so I have to ask; is it worth a special trip?
02/22/2009 - 9:52amSinger Dolly Parton Named Ambassador for Great Smoky Mountains National Park's AnniversaryLarry, did you see Dolly on "Larry King Live" a few days ago? She was great.
02/21/2009 - 3:24pmNPCA, PEER Voice Concerns Over Proposed Mountain Bike Rule Change In National ParksThe NPS knows what it is doing at Muir Woods, Zebulon. Experience shows that if you let visitors wander around off-trail, they walk round and round and round those big redwoods. The result is dead trees. All of that tromping compacts the soil around the tree roots, eliminates vital air ...
02/21/2009 - 9:52amNPCA, PEER Voice Concerns Over Proposed Mountain Bike Rule Change In National ParksAll of this is terribly confusing, Kurt. Just when I got used to being called a "bunny-loving tree-hugger" or an "unresconstructed hippy-dippy ecofreak," now I have to know whether I am an "environmental wacko," an "econazi," or perhaps just a plain old "enviro."
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