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05/27/2009 - 5:05pmHouse Seals Deal To Allow Wide Range of Firearms into The National Park System[quote]If 281 fugitives choose to hide out in the USPP areas makes you wonder how many fugitives may be hiding out in the other areas, doesn’t it?[/quote] No, it doesn't. USPP officers are based primarily, if not entirely, in the Washington metropolitan area, where the largest contingent of Park Police ...
05/26/2009 - 10:13amHouse Seals Deal To Allow Wide Range of Firearms into The National Park SystemRAH, just to set the record straight, the NPS has not acted like a "sovereign entity" on this issue. It does what Congress or the administration tells it to do.
05/26/2009 - 10:10amHouse Seals Deal To Allow Wide Range of Firearms into The National Park SystemFrank, I knew you wouldn't disappoint me. So let me walk you through my thinking. My comment regarding the difficulty in fully assessing crime in the parks: The figures Mr. Kane cites are simply numbers in broad categories. They're not broken down enough to fully understand what sort of crimes ...
05/26/2009 - 8:28amHouse Seals Deal To Allow Wide Range of Firearms into The National Park SystemThere's definitely a lot of material here to sort through and digest. That said, and without having scoured it all, just a quick note that your statistics in graph six are a tad out of context. For instance, while you noted that the USPP reported more than 11,000 criminal acts ...
05/25/2009 - 7:13pmRemember, No Mardis Gras Beads or Dry Ice While Floating at Niobrara National Scenic RiverSeems to me that trying to prevent broken bottles, which can lead to serious injury; countless pieces of Styrofoam, which can lead to eyesores and resource problems; and frat-party atmosphere in a unit of the National Park System, all are fairly reasonable. This is the 21st century. Surely people can ...
05/21/2009 - 8:09amMystery Photo 4: It's All In the PatternsDevil's Postpile it is. I thought for sure this one would be a puzzler for a long while. To see this perspective one needs to hike up onto the top of the "pile," where glaciers not only have sheared off the ends but polished them quite nicely. Congrats to DK, ...
05/21/2009 - 7:58amMystery Photo 4: It's All In the PatternsNope and nope.
05/21/2009 - 7:49amInterior Officials Release Rule Change to Allow National Park Visitors to Arm ThemselvesPeter, you overlook the fact that there are numerous cases of "law-abiding" CCW holders who have been charged with crimes, that there are many cases of CCW holders whose weapons have been involved in accidental shootings (more than a few involving young children), and that the Coburn amendment goes beyond ...
05/19/2009 - 3:01pmCables Are In Place On Half Dome in Yosemite National ParkDon't they still have that stash of gloves at the base of the cables?
05/19/2009 - 12:48pmDon't Take National Park Landscapes for GrantedKirby, I'm not sure habitat fragmentation is as great a threat to extinctions as climate change. We long have struggled with habitat fragmentation and coped -- not solved -- but coped with it via genetic importations (ie. Florida panthers), recovery/reintroduction programs (ie. gray wolf, elk, mountain goats), and even land ...
05/19/2009 - 11:16amMissed Portage Leads to Death At Big South Fork National River And Recreation AreaYour question about priorities is not the first time that has been raised, although perhaps not specifically in terms of signage. At various times on the [b][i]Traveler[/i][/b] there [url=http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2008/09/how-far-should-national-park-rangers-go-safeguard-your-life]have been discussions[/url] about how far the NPS should go to make the parks safer for visitors. More than a few have ...
05/19/2009 - 10:08amMissed Portage Leads to Death At Big South Fork National River And Recreation AreaSo noted.
05/17/2009 - 3:40pmSenate Loads Credit Card Bill With Amendment to Allow Loaded Weapons in National ParksRAH, Of course it's rational for Wisconsin to ignore what neighboring states do when it comes to what laws it passes and enforces. My point was that, in the case of more than a few national parks, the parks are federal reserves within a state, much like tribal lands within ...
05/17/2009 - 11:07amSenate Loads Credit Card Bill With Amendment to Allow Loaded Weapons in National Parks"It is irrational to prohibit carry in NPS when it is pefectly legal is the adjoining state." So is it irrational to prohibit carry in Wisconsin because it adjoins states that permit carry? Is it irrational for different states with CCW to have different requirements for CCW?
05/17/2009 - 10:04amHere's How You Can Follow Science At Great Smoky Mountains National Park From AfarThanks for pointing out the link problem, Rob. It's now fixed. If you like this web innovation, check back tomorrow to see what the folks at Zion (with help from Glacier, I think) are doing. A great piece of interpretation and education.
05/15/2009 - 2:22pmJudge Blocks Wal-Mart SuperCenter From Opening Near Joshua Tree National ParkI don't know if the government will take greenhouse gases into consideration with road paving or any of the other "stimulus" projects, but it's certainly an interesting point you raise, Frank. Where do we as a society decide to make trade-offs? What is considered appropriate, what is not? Should we ...
05/15/2009 - 1:39pmSenate Loads Credit Card Bill With Amendment to Allow Loaded Weapons in National ParksIf inalienable rights prevail, why can't you walk into Sen. Coburn's office with a concealed weapon? One thing to keep in mind is that under the Coburn amendment the prevailing state weapons laws would apply, so if passed into law national parks would be open not just to CCWs, but ...
05/15/2009 - 11:14amSenate Loads Credit Card Bill With Amendment to Allow Loaded Weapons in National ParksRAH, I think there are more concerns than "a fear that people can not be trusted with carrying a hand gun without going manic and attacking other people," and I'm not so sure that is a valid fear in this discussion. Some other concerns that come to mind: * Accidents ...
05/15/2009 - 9:35amInterior Secretary Salazar Urged to Protect Valley Forge National Historical ParkIn a nutshell, the objections revolve around where the complex is to be built -- on land with historic significance to the Continental Army. Plus, some years ago there was agreement between the NPS and the predecessors of ARC to locate a museum in another section of the park, one ...
05/15/2009 - 8:53amSenate Loads Credit Card Bill With Amendment to Allow Loaded Weapons in National ParksAnonymous, some would argue that the old rule, which allowed gun owners to transport firearms through the parks as long as they were dismantled and stowed out of reach, was a compromise. I'm not sure how doing away with that rule and allowing concealed carry or open carry is a ...
05/14/2009 - 10:30amMystery Photo: Where In the National Park System Does Puck Reside?Well done, well done.
05/14/2009 - 8:38amComment Now: General Gun Regulations for Areas Administered By the National Park ServiceMike, I have never heard of bears in Glacier, or any other national park for that matter, swatting the heads off people. And odds are your gun will only irritate any bear you encounter, if you managed to hit him. I strongly suggest you [url=http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/podcast/2009/being-bear-safe-glacier-national-park-and-other-areas-national-park-system]watch this video[/url], and then talk ...
05/13/2009 - 11:11amSenate Loads Credit Card Bill With Amendment to Allow Loaded Weapons in National ParksDon't overlook the fact that more than a few national parks are surrounded by national forests, where hunting is allowed. If indeed Sen. Coburn's amendment would allow the carrying of rifles in parks, would hunters look to some park campgrounds as base camps they could use for heading off into ...
05/13/2009 - 10:27amMountain Life To be Celebrated In Festival at Great Smoky Mountains National ParkThis Saturday, the 16th
05/11/2009 - 7:29pmRocky Mountain National Park Crews Battling Bark Beetles With InsecticideBarky, pine beetles evolved alongside lodgepole pines. They are very native. I'm pretty sure the same can be said of spruce bark beetles. Now, white pine blister rust, a disease, is non-native and very lethal. So if you wiped out the bark beetles but left the rust in town, the ...
05/11/2009 - 6:09pmLooking For Lodging: the Blue Ridge ParkwayActually, we've had a few stories mentioning the tough times at BLRI. Hopefully they'll get a little money out of the stimulus funding, cuz they can certainly use it.
05/11/2009 - 8:15amPredictions for the 2009 Wildfire SeasonThe spring of '88 was quite wet, and then around June 1 somebody turned off the spigot. The rest, as they say, is [url=http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2008/06/yellowstone-national-parks-historic-1988-fire-season]history[/url].
05/10/2009 - 8:23pmCastle Rock Cut at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Open For BoatersThe "3,613" is the above-sea level elevation of the lake's surface.
05/10/2009 - 7:34amRocky Mountain National Park Crews Battling Bark Beetles With InsecticideBarky, You touch on some very difficult points that the NPS has to address. It must be interesting sitting in on their planning process. Should parks be managed for their aesthetics? After all, mountain pine beetles are natives and have been around about as long as lodgepole pines. So should ...
05/06/2009 - 2:30pmMammoth Cave National Park Tours Not Affected By White-Nose Syndrome Yes, the Smokies' caves were closed about a month ago. You can find that story by clicking [url=http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2009/04/great-smoky-mountains-national-park-closes-all-park-caves-protect-bats]here.[/url]
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