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11/21/2008 - 12:30pmStudy Touts Economic Benefits of Mount St. Helens "National Park"As we've discovered, to a large degree the names applied to NPS (and handful of USFS and BLM) units have no reliable definitions. The distinction, in this case, between a National Volcanic Monument and a National Park is entirely arbitrary. (See Speaker Pelosi's absurd Golden Gate National Parks kick.) I ...
11/21/2008 - 9:16amUpon Further Review - What Visited Your Campsite While You Were Sleeping?We have had only (that we know of) a resident mouse of the cabin where we were staying. In the journal left behind by other campers his/her name was Spenser. One morning a shoe was stuffed with a shredded paper towel. Too funny. MB
11/21/2008 - 2:40amAre Yosemite National Park Officials Overlooking Safety of Curry Village Guests?I was present, staying in a tent cabin at Curry Village that morning. What the article doesn't mention is the afternoon before a smaller rockfall sent boulders sailing through unoccupied tent cabins in the same area as the larger one. If the concessioner and the NPS cannot take responsibility to ...
11/20/2008 - 5:06pmNational Park Service Prepares to Host Millions of Visitors for the Presidential Inauguration and ParadeGerald, Sylvia: You are so right: A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that THEY CAN VOTE THEMSELVES LARGESSE from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from ...
11/20/2008 - 3:00pmNational Park Service Prepares to Host Millions of Visitors for the Presidential Inauguration and ParadeLOL...Bob says "open-minded"...so open your brains are falling out. Give 'em a chance? When did the left wing ever give Bush a chance?? Why is it that it is O.K. for the left to trash people (aka Palin) but not the right? Answer that one, Bob.... BTW, just take a ...
11/20/2008 - 1:06pmNational Park Service Prepares to Host Millions of Visitors for the Presidential Inauguration and ParadeGerald, There are many highly motivated, successful folks who will be celebrating this event. I have not felt represented or well-served by the current administration, or the current incarnation of the Republican party, which I have formerly supported. To suggest that only homeless, unmotivated people support Obama is a typical ...
11/20/2008 - 10:50amNational Park Service Prepares to Host Millions of Visitors for the Presidential Inauguration and ParadeActually Anon, it WILL BE the homeless, the great unwashed if you will, who will be coming to see their "savior." Hope? Change? What exactly do you mean? Old Clinton appointees? I'll tell ya what, you keep the CHANGE, I'll keep my freedom. "Let the world see these "faceless people"...hmmmm...ever ...
11/20/2008 - 10:09amNational Park Service Prepares to Host Millions of Visitors for the Presidential Inauguration and ParadeYes, four million people to gather and see this remarkable event is quite astonishing if not monumental in grandeur. I would calculate the magnitude of this size definitely represents a logistical safety and health problems. But, considering the mood of the nation and the transition of this new administration that ...
11/19/2008 - 10:24amUpdated: Dueling Judges Push Yellowstone National Park Snowmobile Limit Back to 720 Per Day"I don't buy all this enviro nonsense, and neither do most of the American people"...............Not true. Public opinion survey after survey, conducted by the Park Service themselves and through independent researchers, have shown that the majority of Americans feel that snowmobiles have no place in Yellowstone. I agree with Frank ...
11/19/2008 - 9:05amUpdated: Dueling Judges Push Yellowstone National Park Snowmobile Limit Back to 720 Per DayIt has come to a point where common sense is no longer the rule. If we don't like a decesion, we sue. Come on folks it is time to start using some good old common sense. The parks were set aside as two folds: to enjoy and preserve not eliminate ...
11/19/2008 - 1:53amThe Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial You See Over There By the Tidal Basin Is Not the OriginalI'm impressed that you gave credit to the Wiki photographer. I'm sure he appreciates that. :^) Interesting subject. It's always nice to be remembered.
11/19/2008 - 1:47amAre Yosemite National Park Officials Overlooking Safety of Curry Village Guests?Use the occasion to move some lodging out of the valley. And in a few years some more. The floods were a good start. Safety is a strong argument, but ultimately it should be about restoring serenity in the valley.
11/18/2008 - 11:46pmUpdated: Dueling Judges Push Yellowstone National Park Snowmobile Limit Back to 720 Per DayThe NPS (and fed govt.) works for us taxpayers, not us for them. They need to be reminded of that, and allow as much recreation opportunities as feasible in OUR parks. They are ALL our parks, not parks for just for enviros. I don't buy all this enviro nonsense, and ...
11/18/2008 - 6:51pmUpdated: Dueling Judges Push Yellowstone National Park Snowmobile Limit Back to 720 Per DayYellowstone does not exist to support a small number of businesses in West Yellowstone. It is a NATIONAL Park. In fact, Yellowstone is more even than that. As the world's first National Park it is, and has been, a model that kind of belongs to everyone. There are people who ...
11/18/2008 - 2:25pmUpdated: Dueling Judges Push Yellowstone National Park Snowmobile Limit Back to 720 Per DayThe Department of Interior has become a political stronghold and a disgrace to America. So what are we going to do now, spend many millions to once again do a scientific study and then ignore it ?!? I dearly hope that the President-elect has a plan to clean house in ...
11/18/2008 - 12:01pmUpdated: Dueling Judges Push Yellowstone National Park Snowmobile Limit Back to 720 Per DayWhat the h*%# is a judge all the way back east in DC doing making this decision anyway? Shouldn't this be a LOCAL (Wyoming/Montana/Idaho) decision??
11/18/2008 - 11:58amUpdated: Dueling Judges Push Yellowstone National Park Snowmobile Limit Back to 720 Per DayFact is, there are businesses in West Yellowstone who have invested huge sums of money into their snowmobile fleets, not to mention the infrastructure to support the public who wish to enjoy the park in this manner. This should be based on sound science...the Park Service has already determined that ...
11/18/2008 - 9:51amUpdated: Dueling Judges Push Yellowstone National Park Snowmobile Limit Back to 720 Per DayWhile not technically "overturning" Sullivan's ruling, this is clearly a slap in the face to that decision. I just can't see that Judge Sullivan would allow this to stand, though I guess it depends on whether the original plaintiffs want to press it. They certainly should. If zero snow vehicles ...
11/18/2008 - 1:53amKeeping History Honest When It Comes to Sight Lines In Civil War-era National Parks Is Not Without ControversyI don't really get it. What is the purpose of preserving battlefields at all? And more specific, why should they be preserved in the state of the time of the slaughter? Do people visit those places to remember the victims of the carnage? Why would anyone then want to preserve ...
11/17/2008 - 8:25pmCollapse of "Wall Arch" Proves Gravity Does Work at Arches National ParkA few folks asked about climbing on arches above... There is certainly not a blanket law against climbing on all the arches in Arches NP. My family and I went canyoneering with a guide in the Fiery Furnace with full permission of the NPS and we climbed over and then ...
11/17/2008 - 6:50pmUpdated: Bush Administration: "A Legacy of Failure for Our Public Lands," Claims Congressman GrijalvaThis report appears to be such a biased partisan attack that it is difficult to believe much of what is written. The bison population is NOT endangered . The National Bison Range in Montana maintains a herd size that is compatible with the amount of acreage it has for the ...
11/17/2008 - 11:22amKeeping History Honest When It Comes to Sight Lines In Civil War-era National Parks Is Not Without ControversyThe battlefields have been preserved to educate us, the people who were not there. The park services try to make battlefields as authentic as they can. I can understand removing trees to accomplish the task. My family and I have gone to Gettysburg a few times, and I still get ...
11/17/2008 - 8:22amKeeping History Honest When It Comes to Sight Lines In Civil War-era National Parks Is Not Without ControversyIn July of 2006 my wife and I were vacationing in Colorado and Utah. We went to visit Dinosaur National Monument and found the building that covers the quary had been closed 2 weeks before we arrived. We were not happy but understood why after seeing the huge cracks in ...
11/16/2008 - 11:33pmForever on the MountainI have a particular interest in your review since I am George Hall's daughter - the man who was superintendent in 1967. I remember that time well. Tabor made many significant errors in presenting his story - I have outlined the errors with the back up for each correction and ...
11/16/2008 - 7:00pmEnd of a Curious Era at Mount Rainier National ParkOoohh, I hated that building. Long curving ramps from one floor to the next. No stairs, no elevator, so it was a minor hike just to get to the top. And the panoramic views? Nonsense, there were trees blocking the view of the mountain. Great view of the Tatoosh Range ...
11/16/2008 - 12:16pmDo You Care About Energy Exploration Near Our National Parks?Raser concentrates on geothermal electricity. There you run into the problem, that the national electricity grid is in an abysmally bad condition and the loss on the long-distance is considerable. High-voltage direct current could reduce the loss, but so far there are only two long distance HVDC lines, one between ...
11/16/2008 - 11:36amGlory, Shame, and Remembrance at Colorado’s Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Siteremember the monsters that begat your dumb persons http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2008/07/what-do-people-take-home-visit-gettysburg-national-military-park * The 19th century warfare tactics employed at Gettysburg gathered large numbers of troops into fairly compact areas and compelled them to pound away at each other at close range. Massed fire delivered from tight formations was deemed necessary to effectively ...
11/16/2008 - 11:08amDo You Care About Energy Exploration Near Our National Parks?Geothermal energy is almost impossible to store or transport. So Yellowstone is simply too far out-of-the-way to use the geothermal options there effectively. Fortunately it is not necessary to drill the nations first National Park, as geothermal energy can be used at almost every place where there are deep (12.000-20.000 ...
11/16/2008 - 8:43amDo You Care About Energy Exploration Near Our National Parks?With all of the near surface thermal energy available, we should tap Yellowstone for massive geothermal energy development. It could power the entire western US and help to greatly reduce our fossil fuel consumption as well as provide additional electrical power generation we'll need for switching over to plug-in electric ...
11/15/2008 - 10:44pmThat Ringing Heard by Backcountry Visitors in Glacier National Park Wasn't in Their EarsPardon my ignorance, but why would the ringing of the bell be considered inappropriate?
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