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| 08/28/2008 - 4:09pm | Grammar Vigilantes Busted in Grand Canyon National Park, Barred from Park System | If these signs and other signs around the National Parks are felt to be "Historic" (designated), then why does the NPS not Protect them from Vandalism, ie. plexiglass enclosures. Are the fines that are collected for vandalism going to be used to protect similar historic signs in the future? |
| 08/28/2008 - 12:44pm | **** Viewing National Parks Traveler on Firefox 3.0**** | It was sometimes like that with 2.0 on a Mac as well, and with Safari. |
| 08/28/2008 - 11:52am | Park Police Arrest Men Who Brought a Loaded Submachine Gun to a Playground in National Capital Parks-East | Hail to the NRA! Seig Heil! The Republicans gotta love this guy. Good job, America! |
| 08/28/2008 - 11:49am | **** Viewing National Parks Traveler on Firefox 3.0**** | I'm viewing this with Firefox 3 and don't see a problem. Can you post a screenshot showing the difference? |
| 08/28/2008 - 11:42am | The Economist Warns that America’s National Park System is in Deep, Deep Trouble | Frank, I'm sure you had a great time knocking around in those canyons, and that they're no worse off for it. Same goes for the idylls I've enjoyed in a host of remote locations while hiking, running, climbing and biking. The occasion for the original essay is the Economist speculating ... |
| 08/28/2008 - 10:30am | The Economist Warns that America’s National Park System is in Deep, Deep Trouble | I'm surprised to read so many posts lauding the not-so-noble pursuit of hiking off trail! From the standpoint of recreation impact, a gaggle of tourists who stay on the trail will generally have fewer impacts on the natural world than an off-trail rambler in search of mystic connections with the ... |
| 08/28/2008 - 8:58am | First Piping Plovers, Now Sea Turtles Descend on Cape Hatteras National Seashore | Anon You are correct this is "Sad stuff". You said " I live in California and we keep motorized vehicles off most of our beaches, Go read a book about sea turtles- we've just about wiped them out, and we do not know what the effect of that will ... |
| 08/28/2008 - 8:44am | First Piping Plovers, Now Sea Turtles Descend on Cape Hatteras National Seashore | Sea turtles are indead protected under the endangered species act. You can check out the status of each species here: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/turtles/ Everyone is intitled to their opinion, but please, give the right facts. Pea Island is administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service, not the NPS or Cape Hatteras NS. ... |
| 08/28/2008 - 8:00am | First Piping Plovers, Now Sea Turtles Descend on Cape Hatteras National Seashore | Sad stuff. I live in California and we keep motorized vehicles off most of our beaches, even proposing opening beaches up to vehicles would cause a riot. The internal combustion engine is dying, but it will take a generation for those die hards to let go. Go read a book ... |
| 08/28/2008 - 7:58am | First Piping Plovers, Now Sea Turtles Descend on Cape Hatteras National Seashore | Just want to agree with what FHTS had to say about buisness being off this year.My family started coming to the OBX about 25 years ago.We fell in in love with Hatteras the first day there.We averaged two to four trip a year up until this year.We work hard all ... |
| 08/28/2008 - 4:59am | First Piping Plovers, Now Sea Turtles Descend on Cape Hatteras National Seashore | It's a fact the the turtles are nesting in large numbers on the whole east coast. It's also a fact that they are not endangered or threatened. So why the massive closures? CHNS rangers kill so called predators of plovers, such as fox, racoons, feral cats and nutria yet go ... |
| 08/27/2008 - 4:26pm | First Piping Plovers, Now Sea Turtles Descend on Cape Hatteras National Seashore | As a former official NPS employee that no longer works in CAHA some of your facts are wrong. There are criteria for moving turtle nests in CAHA and it does happen. I myself moved one with a record 168 eggs of which a more significant portion did not hatch than ... |
| 08/27/2008 - 3:37pm | First Piping Plovers, Now Sea Turtles Descend on Cape Hatteras National Seashore | ------------- Posted by longcaster On August 27th, 2008 At midnite Sept 14 the rules of common sense change. The full beach will be closed dune to surf. No human may pass this closure, not by walking or driving. Is it that the turtles want to go into the dunes to ... |
| 08/27/2008 - 2:35pm | First Piping Plovers, Now Sea Turtles Descend on Cape Hatteras National Seashore | The reason for the full beach closures after Sept 15 is because the night-time driving prohibition is lifted. Headlights behind the nests will cause the emerging hatchlings to travel toward that light. Shut off the electricity to the islands every night and they wouldn't need that black fencing, which is ... |
| 08/27/2008 - 2:27pm | First Piping Plovers, Now Sea Turtles Descend on Cape Hatteras National Seashore | 1. Only nests which reach 50 days after Sept 15 require a full-beach closure, even if they are more than 30 m from the dunes - because night-time driving begins with permits on Sept 15. (all nests behind which an ORV corridor cannot be established also require a full-beach closure). ... |
| 08/27/2008 - 11:22am | 4-Year-old Dies in Fall off South Rim of Grand Canyon | i think its the parks fault. they need to make sure that the park is secure not just for children, but for everyone. the grand canyon is a huge cliff and if anyone lost their balance or anything else they need a fence or something to keep them from falling ... |
| 08/27/2008 - 10:36am | Grammar Vigilantes Busted in Grand Canyon National Park, Barred from Park System | It seems to me that the action by park service and courts simply effects the restoration of a historical site to its original condition. |
| 08/27/2008 - 9:24am | First Piping Plovers, Now Sea Turtles Descend on Cape Hatteras National Seashore | It's actually the state of North Carolina and the FWS who oppose moving turtle nests and with good reason. |
| 08/27/2008 - 7:59am | Grammar Vigilantes Busted in Grand Canyon National Park, Barred from Park System | OK. Let's have a little fun. What spelling/grammatical errors have you spotted on signs in parks. I'll start. There's a sign at Pt. Dume, Malibu, California (a state beach) which talks about the sea life clinging to the rocks as 'muscles'. Now unless Arnold himself is down on the shore, ... |
| 08/27/2008 - 7:50am | Grammar Vigilantes Busted in Grand Canyon National Park, Barred from Park System | Have you read the horrible grammar that is on the brass plaque that was left on the coast of California by Sir Francis Drake? I don't think I would change that either. And, while I agree with Rangertoo, I've noticed that some governmental agency went through all the historical highway ... |
| 08/27/2008 - 7:27am | Presidential Politics and the National Parks | Thanks, Kurt! Check out the ads here: www.npca.org/media_center/psas or watch a video production of [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejO6c3iw3bg]Sam Waterson's radio PSA[/url] created by a Law&Order fan. The polling results demonstrate that national parks are a key positioning issue for candidates; they help to define a candidate’s character in a positive way, reflecting a ... |
| 08/27/2008 - 6:26am | First Piping Plovers, Now Sea Turtles Descend on Cape Hatteras National Seashore | It is indeed a fact that in the CHNSRA, Post-CD, all nests within the 50-day window require full beach closures for a certain distance either side of the nest to ORV’s and in some cases pedestrians as well. The reason for this is: Tire tracks make it difficult for the ... |
| 08/27/2008 - 5:28am | First Piping Plovers, Now Sea Turtles Descend on Cape Hatteras National Seashore | Nice to see that Cape Hatteras is finally doing what it needs to to protect wildlife at the seashore. It's been overrun by 4x4s for far too long. |
| 08/26/2008 - 10:51pm | Grammar Vigilantes Busted in Grand Canyon National Park, Barred from Park System | As I used your post as a reference in mine, I figured I should alert you about my take on the situation, which can be read here: http://uselessdoug.blogspot.com/2008/08/doing-it-for-kids.html |
| 08/26/2008 - 7:58pm | Glacier National Park Officials Plan to Scale Down Search for Missing Hiker | Best wishes to Yi-Jien Hwa and his family. I had the opportunity to hang with a group of Malaysian climbers in Nepal- they were most accomodating and it has remained a fond memory ever since. As a Montanan, I hope for the best in this difficult situation. T |
| 08/26/2008 - 7:57pm | Grammar Vigilantes Busted in Grand Canyon National Park, Barred from Park System | There is only one thing that bugs me more than typos and that is someone with built-in spellcheck that highlights the typos by making corrections on the printed material with bold markers or white out. You can't find the original authors most of the time and you loose the original ... |
| 08/26/2008 - 7:11pm | Grammar Vigilantes Busted in Grand Canyon National Park, Barred from Park System | This is INSANE. This kind of thing is why I hate the Parks system. I love the parks, but the system and the self righteous, jerks that work there can go to Hades. |
| 08/26/2008 - 6:42pm | Grammar Vigilantes Busted in Grand Canyon National Park, Barred from Park System | I understand the punishment. Regardless of the grammatical improvement, it is most probably vandalism. I am concerned, however, that park officials reinserted what was deleted. I wonder what their thinking was: Let's correct the vandalism by restoring the grammatical errors? |
| 08/26/2008 - 5:29pm | Grammar Vigilantes Busted in Grand Canyon National Park, Barred from Park System | $3,035.00 for a hand-rendered sign? Who is the criminal? |
| 08/26/2008 - 4:38pm | The Economist Warns that America’s National Park System is in Deep, Deep Trouble | this is a great post, and a very interesting discussion. @ saltsage236: "Sure, "park" is an entirely anthropocentric moniker for a tract of land protected for its natural values moreso than its direct recreational benefit to humans. But here's the rub: Call our parks what you want, but if they ... |
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