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05/27/2009 - 5:17pmNational Park System Quiz 56: MemorialsIf you are going to tell the story, Anon, please tell the whole story. The ACLU has never argued that it is inappropriate to honor war veterans, or that there's anything wrong with a Latin cross, per se. What the ACLU has argued, and the lower courts have affirmed, is ...
05/27/2009 - 12:02pmNational Park System Quiz 56: MemorialsGood catch, RoadRanger. I've revised the quiz item involved. Thank you very kindly.
05/27/2009 - 11:04amMud Snares 19-Year-Old At Cuyahoga Valley National ParkYup, if it weren't for visitors getting into one sort of trouble or another in the parks we'd have nothing to write about. If you were really interested in helping us, Random Walker, you'd quit pounding your keyboard and go get zapped, fried, toasted, flattened, bitten, submerged, trapped, or stranded. ...
05/24/2009 - 5:34pmDescendants of Mesa Verde Anasazi Help Produce a Musical MasterpieceThanks for the feedback, Eric. Regular readers of the Traveler know that I've used the terms Ancestral Puebloans and Anasazi more or less interchangeably. I'll probably use Ancestral Puebloans much more often in the future.
05/20/2009 - 2:12pmNational Park System Quiz 55: ClimbingTahoma: Nice going, and thanks for the info about the fee at Mt. Rainier.
05/06/2009 - 2:29pmNational Park Quiz 53: CastlesThanks for the additional info, Former. I understand that putting in an additional pipe would have cost far too much.
05/04/2009 - 2:07pmCreature Feature: Burmese Pythons Prowl the Everglades, and That’s Not a Good ThingThanks for the clarification on the "burst" python, RangerLady. I made the correction in the article so I won't be guilty of perpetuating this error. As for the tree-of-heaven, I see we are in agreement that this is a particularly nasty invader. When I write about python research and control ...
05/04/2009 - 7:32amMystery Photo 1: Wow – This is One Big Boulder!Our mystery boulder is located in Yellowstone National Park. More specifically, it's situated along the road leading to the Inspiration Point overlook on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. About 80,000 years ago, an early Pinedale Glacier transported it from the Beartooth Mountains to its present ...
05/02/2009 - 9:09amCreature Feature: Burmese Pythons Prowl the Everglades, and That’s Not a Good ThingIf it "does well", accept its presence? Let me see: American climbing fern, American swamp eel, American piranha, American walking catfish, American snakefish, American python, American anaconda..... :-) In a more serious vein, you make a very good point about doing a better job of explaining the disruptive effects of ...
05/02/2009 - 8:01amCreature Feature: Burmese Pythons Prowl the Everglades, and That’s Not a Good ThingKirby, I will accept your "borderline sensationalism" criticism at face value, but you and I are going to have to agree to disagree on the rest of it. I contend that it's not fair to compare the Burmese python, an invasive, disruptive non-native, to the diamondback rattlesnake, an indigenous species. ...
05/01/2009 - 12:45pmOur Only Privately-Owned National Park Celebrates a Birthday and a Vital Conservation EasementThe National Park Trust is not a government agency or a commercial entity. It is a private, nonprofit organization that the National Parks Conservation Association created in 1983 for purposes that include helping to establish new national parks.
05/01/2009 - 5:05amTerrain Map Shows that Kurt’s Wednesday Campsite on the Yampa Was Way CoolSorry. I guess that's why people prefer the downloaded program. I say "I guess" because I have never used Google Earth. Should I? Is the software user-friendly, I mean really moron-proof?
04/30/2009 - 8:21pmTerrain Map Shows that Kurt’s Wednesday Campsite on the Yampa Was Way CoolYou're quite correct, Random Walker. Are you using Google Earth as a browser plugin?
04/30/2009 - 9:08amKurt's Yampa River Sojourn Marks Step for a Day Somebody who's a lot more GPS-savvy than I am will have to answer that, Robert. I do know that Kurt has a Garmin 60CSx GPS unit with him, but I know nothing about its communication capabilities. And if you've read Kurt's [url=http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2009/04/electronic-technology-national-park-backcountry-good-or-bad]article about his SPOT GPS gizmo[/url], you know as ...
04/30/2009 - 8:01amAccessible National Parks, Airline DivisionIs it true, Anon2, that Townsend anchors "The Quiet Side of the Smokies"? On a scale of one to ten, where Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge and Cherokee represent a ten, how would you rate Townsend on the scale of Gateway Clamor and Visual Noise?
04/29/2009 - 9:55amKurt's Yampa River Sojourn Marks Step for a Day Thanks, Omar. I was a tad suspicious about the similarity of the two sets of coordinates (see below), which is why I raised the question of river mileage traveled Tuesday. Still, I didn't put the two pieces of the puzzle together quite the way you did. Nice catch. +40° 29' ...
04/29/2009 - 3:45amDo Cougars Roam Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore?My wife and I vacation in this general area (Watervale, on Lower Herring Lake) and have frequently driven that section of M-22 en route to Sleeping Bear or the Leelenau Peninsula. We've also canoed the Platte. I always keep a sharp eye out for wildlife, and while I've seen plenty ...
04/28/2009 - 10:54amVerizon Wireless Wants Cellphone Tower Near Grant Grove in Kings Canyon National ParkMike, please comment on the art and science of creating cell phone base stations that blend into their surroundings. I mean, if the decision is made to locate a cell phone site in a particular place, can it be made darn near invisible? I believe that the cell phone industry ...
04/28/2009 - 10:10amNational Park Service Concerned Over Solar Power Plans on BLM Lands in WestSince waste water (gray water) is commonly used for irrigating turf at golf courses, picnic areas, and various green expanses in the arid West, are you sure that Zion National Park isn't using gray water for watering the lawn(s) you mentioned? Where gray water is in use there are normally(though ...
04/28/2009 - 9:31amThat “America’s Marines” Commercial Shows Five NPS Units, Not SixHearty thanks to Jon, who pointed to an error (since corrected) in the initial version of this article. The last two scenes were filmed in Golden Gate National Recreation Area alright, but not from Crissy Field looking north. The filming was actually done in the Marin Headlands area of GOGA ...
04/28/2009 - 7:17amVerizon Wireless Wants Cellphone Tower Near Grant Grove in Kings Canyon National ParkAnon, do you know something that that the rest of us do not? Can you cite any scientific evidence that electromagnetic radiation associated with power lines, cell phone towers, or whatever is harmful to people? I'm genuinely curious. For about 25 years now I've been looking for a study that ...
04/28/2009 - 7:07amNational Park Service Concerned Over Solar Power Plans on BLM Lands in WestBack in the early 1970s, Vice President (and soon-to-be-admitted-felon) Spiro Agnew railed against Nixon's vocal foes, calling them "nattering nabobs of negativism." So of course thousands of youngsters bought and proudly wore T-shirts emblazoned with "Nattering Nabob of Negativism." I'm tempted to get me a Tee with an "Envirofreak for ...
04/27/2009 - 3:17pmThat “America’s Marines” Commercial Shows Five NPS Units, Not SixI'm not familiar with the area, so I really can't say exactly where the filming took place. It looks like the general description of the Camp Hale site (large, flat bottomed valley) may fit. Camp Hale was deactivated in 1965 and turned over to the Forest Service. Not too long ...
04/27/2009 - 11:14amPlowing Yosemite's Tioga Road For Summer TrafficGood catch, Liz. That was a bad choice or words, alright.
04/27/2009 - 4:48amUpon Further Review: A Cat on a LeashWe've been owned by cats for many years and have come to understand that getting a cat to walk on a leash is one of the more difficult tasks in life. There are compensations, though. I recall reading an article back in the 1980s about a woman who was walking ...
04/25/2009 - 11:17amNational Parks Provided Dramatic Backdrops for a Famous Marine Corps CommercialBruce: By "cheating," I assume you mean that you can use the info provided at the Marine Corps website where you can view the extended commercial. Go ahead and use that info all you like. The question is whether you can use it wisely. :o)
04/25/2009 - 11:13amNational Parks Provided Dramatic Backdrops for a Famous Marine Corps CommercialWell, you got four of the six NPS units correct, Omar, and that's not too bad. Want to take a crack at the "nearly visible" one?
04/25/2009 - 9:33amPlowing Yosemite's Tioga Road For Summer TrafficFrank, you make some valid points here about the exhaust end of the process, but it amounts to implying that, since park maintenance and repair activities cannot be accomplished without adversely impacting the environment, they ought not be done. Or do you consider keeping Tioga Road open a non-essential activity? ...
04/25/2009 - 6:27amMystery Plant: There’s Good Reason They Call This Thing "the Death Apple”Chef Bill, I sure hope you've never whipped up a dessert with manchineel fruit as a mystery ingredient! On a more serious note, the special chemical properties of the manchineel tree have been and continue to be of great scientific interest. Perhaps other Traveler readers can comment on the useful ...
04/25/2009 - 6:17amMystery Plant: There’s Good Reason They Call This Thing "the Death Apple”Rick, I've wanted to visit Parque Histórico La Isabela ever since I first heard of it many years ago. But it's so inconvenient to get to that park (even after you've managed to get to the Dominican Republic) it's unlikely I'll ever visit. Maybe in my next lifetime.
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