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06/18/2009 - 9:13amMystery Photo 8: Who Was This Maiden?Nicely done, Larry. You've got it. Be sure to read the followup article that's scheduled for tomorrow (Friday). It's got loads of additional interesting information about the Lady of the Woods.
06/17/2009 - 7:20amNational Park System Quiz 59: OnlyCraters of the Moon National Preserve is indeed a National Park System unit, MRC, even though it is jointly administered with the Bureau of Land Management. To state this in another way, Craters of the Moon National Preserve is included in the 391-count of National Park System units, even though ...
06/16/2009 - 2:16pmPruning the Parks: It Took the Park Service Over 20 Years to Get Out from Under the Kennedy Center I certainly did not mean to imply that Cuyahoga's Blossom Music Center, the theater and amphitheater at Chamizal National Memorial, and other performing arts venues in the National Park System are not worthy of discussion. But on this, the 37th anniversary of the Kennedy Center's addition to the NPS, the ...
06/15/2009 - 2:32pmKHV Virus Implicated in Lake Mohave Carp Die Off The common carp was introduced into America's waters starting in the early 1830s. That's a l-o-n-g time ago. Once a species has been here "long enough," we stop thinking of it as an import and think of it as a permanent part of the American scene. We eventually forget that ...
06/14/2009 - 11:06amHalf Dome Hiker Falls to His Death in YosemiteI don't have access to summary data on accidents throughout the National Park System for this year, Barky, but even if I knew the numbers I wouldn't get too excited about them. Ups and downs are to be expected in the short run (a few months to a few years). ...
06/13/2009 - 4:34amShould the Jackson Hole Airport Lease Extension Wait for Safety Audit?You make some very good points, Anon. It's very likely that some of the runway accidents can't be wholly attributed to deficiencies of the airport. For example, the NTSB thinks that a brake problem (cross-wiring of the brakes on one set of wheels) may have caused that United Airlines jet ...
06/12/2009 - 5:04amMystery Photo 7: A Movie-Goers SpecialLet's close this one out. Vinn was in the ballpark with "The Incredible Hulk," but the 2008 superhero film with that title didn't have an arch cameo. It was the 2003 Ang Lee-directed film "Hulk" (aka "The Hulk") that had a Double Arch cameo (sharing that distinction with "Indiana Jones ...
06/11/2009 - 10:44amMystery Photo 7: A Movie-Goers SpecialThanks for the clarification, MRC. And thanks for being patient with me, GregS. One of the really neat things about administrative access to the Comments section is that I can go back and edit out some of my own dumb remarks. But alas, I can't go back to Double Arch. ...
06/11/2009 - 8:06amMystery Photo 7: A Movie-Goers SpecialI'll give you an "A," GregS, but only for effort. Double Arch did not appear in the 1975 western [i]Against a Crooked Sky[/i].
06/11/2009 - 7:56amMystery Photo 7: A Movie-Goers SpecialI've never seen Double Arch myself, Gerry, but photos like this one have got me convinced it's a "must see." Kurt's promised to take me to Arches (and some other Utah parks) if I get out that way, so it's in my plans. Here in the South you'd say I'm ...
06/11/2009 - 7:47amMystery Photo 7: A Movie-Goers SpecialNope -- not Thelma & Louise, Courthouse Towers.
06/11/2009 - 7:34amMystery Photo 7: A Movie-Goers SpecialVinn: That would be a yes on the place (which has already been identified), but a "no" on the movie.
06/11/2009 - 7:23amMystery Photo 7: A Movie-Goers SpecialBob got in under the wire with the first wholly correct answer on this one, but we'll give Janet credit for an "almost" and Robert credit for "honoring Bob's point." This is indeed a photo of Double Arch in Arches National Park. This fascinating landscape feature made an appearance in ...
06/11/2009 - 6:43amMystery Photo 7: A Movie-Goers SpecialPretty good, Janet, but you didn't quite nail it. Let's see if somebody can get all three elements of the question answered in a way that leaves me no room to quibble.
06/10/2009 - 6:14amTrail Jogger at Glacier National Park Walks Away from Encounter With Two GrizzliesAnon 6/9, here at [i]Traveler [/i]we've tried to make it clear that we don't condone personal attacks and the use of patently offensive or abusive language. Generally, we do a darn good job of intercepting such comments and either deleting them or editing out the inappropriate content. (You can easily ...
06/10/2009 - 5:40amUpdate: Seizure Threat Accelerates Land Acquisition for Flight 93 Memorial The land acquisition process for the Flight 93 Memorial is an emotionally charged issue with powerful arguments on both sides. Whether and how the federal government should use its eminent domain authority in the broader context of establishing and expanding NPS units is something that we'll want to explore in ...
06/09/2009 - 3:31pmYellowstone Poacher Loses Hunting Privileges for LifeI was wondering how long it would take for somebody to raise that question!
06/08/2009 - 7:17amShould the National Park Service Rescue the National D-Day Memorial?This is America, Vicki. You don't have to be a veteran or public servant to publicly express an opinion about where, how, and when the federal government should spend our money.
06/07/2009 - 12:27pmNational Park Lodging Concessionaires Creating Their Own Stimulus PlansI don't want to beat this point into the ground, RAH and Anon, but please indulge me. Travel-related leisure activity ceased being a luxury in America many decades ago. Today, Americans consider leisure travel to be necessary for "a reasonable standard of well-being" in pretty much the same way that ...
06/07/2009 - 8:04amNational Park Lodging Concessionaires Creating Their Own Stimulus PlansRAH, your comments typically provide a lot to agree with, but once in a while you drop in a real zinger. Like this one: [quote]Tourism is a free enterprise industry and it depends on the luxury dollar. [/quote] The tourism industry depends on the luxury dollar? I think you might ...
06/05/2009 - 12:01pmHow Familiar Are You With Yosemite National Park?Years ago -- too many to remember -- Sandy and I were on a flight from Las Vegas to San Francisco. I had gotten myself a fine window seat on the port side of the plane, and there I sat with camera poised, ready to get some great photos of ...
06/02/2009 - 9:16pmThe Denali Road Lottery Offers Regulated Leaf Peeping at Alaska’s Denali National ParkI can't say exactly what method they'll use, but it's a simple matter to assign ID numbers to all entries, however submitted, and then select winning entries randomly.
06/02/2009 - 8:32amMount Who? How Did This Famous Park Get Its Name? Check out the Traveler article at [url=http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2008/09/lakota-gathering-mount-rushmore-national-memorial-commemorates-indian-occupation-memorial-19]this site[/url], Frank C. Aren't you being a little harsh with us poor little overworked and underpaid Traveler writers?
06/01/2009 - 8:36amHow Low Is the Bar For National Park System Inclusion When You Add a Gas Station?As an aside, I'm pretty sure that historic gas stations are included among the many cultural artifacts preserved in connection with the NPS-administered Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program. If you are keenly interested in historic gas stations, you should be sure to read John Jakle's [i]The Gas Station in America[/i] ...
05/29/2009 - 2:55pmWill There Soon Be a Mount Obama Monument and National Park?You've got a point, MotoVagabond, but you'd better not try to carry it too far. In the U.S., a landscape feature has to protrude at least 2,000 feet above the surrounding terrain before it can legitimately be called a mountain. As a matter of practice, however, people here and throughout ...
05/28/2009 - 12:25pmMystery Photo 5: What Cabin Is that Yonder?Texas Gal, your analytical approach to ID-ing the mystery structure puts me in mind of a project I got involved in during a summer I spent in Parke County, Indiana a long time ago. Under the direction of the eminent cultural geographer John Jakle, a bunch of us University of ...
05/28/2009 - 9:16amMud Snares 19-Year-Old At Cuyahoga Valley National ParkEaten would be fine. In the interest of fairness, we will also accept mauled, shot, stabbed, and abducted by aliens.
05/28/2009 - 9:09amMystery Photo 5: What Cabin Is that Yonder?Nope, it's not in Cades Cove. Want to try again?
05/27/2009 - 7:58pmYellowstone National Park's Wolf Population Down More than 25 PercentVaccinating wild animals in national parks is a controversial issue, to be sure. Wildlife biologists prefer to avoid vaccination where possible, but sometimes there's little choice, as when critically endangered populations are at imminent risk of catastrophe. One example that leaps to kind is the sylvatic plague threat to black-footed ...
05/27/2009 - 7:43pmNational Park System Quiz 56: MemorialsThat's quite a story, RoadRanger. Thanks for sharing.
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