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8/23/2009 1:43 pm - On Politics, Bureaucracy, and "Glamping" In the National Park System : What good is a "hands-on" director (as opposed to the previous hands-off kind) if all they have to look forward to is a position dominated by political games and a slow-paced bureaucracy? The NPS needs more than a new director to turn things around but, unfortunately, those kinds of changes ...
8/18/2009 1:17 pm - National Park Geologic Sites Draw Raves and Rants : Petrified Forest is easily one of the most underrated and overlooked national parks with lots of beautiful stark desert scenery. The colorful Triassic logs are pretty neat too. I highly recommend this one if you like your parks empty, vistas vast and full of vivid color and light. The tacky ...
8/17/2009 7:54 am - Our National Parks: "For the Benefit And Enjoyment Of The People" (If You Don't Mind the Entrance Fee) : [quote]Does every Target store keep its profits or does it share them with the whole company? [/quote] Target is a self-interested, for profit company that is organized to survive and prosper by satisfying their customers who voluntarily make purchases of the goods that they offer for sale. The federal guvmint, ...
8/12/2009 8:50 am - Mystery Photo No. 13: Lots of Water Out There : Looks like Voyageurs National Park to me. DOCREP, the hills and northern conifers tell me it is definitely not South Florida.
8/11/2009 3:21 pm - Climate Change and National Parks: A Survival Guide For a Warming World : Okay Jim, I propose that nuclear power be put back on the table as a clean and renewable source that can produce massive amounts of usable energy. Instead of medieval technology like windmills and the land gobbling ugliness of industrial solar panels, this one source has the potential to replace ...
8/11/2009 2:01 pm - Scuttlebutt Has It That A Hold Has Been Placed On the Nomination of Jon Jarvis as National Park Service Director : I guess the bigger point is that "mouthbreathers" are the ones in charge of the parks. This is the real problem and root of all of the dysfunction.
8/11/2009 10:29 am - Scuttlebutt Has It That A Hold Has Been Placed On the Nomination of Jon Jarvis as National Park Service Director : [quote]He believes the Constitution "identifies a collective interest best managed by a federal government empowered to make decisions for the society as a whole."[/quote] Sort of reminds me of totalitarians from the not too distant past. The premise of this power grab stems from the cynical notion that the common ...
8/08/2009 11:13 pm - Scuttlebutt Has It That A Hold Has Been Placed On the Nomination of Jon Jarvis as National Park Service Director : Before the usual suspects jump me for being "negative" I'd like to point out that love of the parks has nothing to do with supporting the federal bureaucracy that oversees their operation. Yellowstone and Glacier are separate and sacrosanct entities with or without the consistent ineptitude regularly displayed by the ...
8/08/2009 5:28 pm - Scuttlebutt Has It That A Hold Has Been Placed On the Nomination of Jon Jarvis as National Park Service Director : Yo Bill-----This only makes my point, in spades, about the absolute necessity of removing the national park system from the criminally insane and corrupt spoils shake down that IS Washington politics. Is this any way to run a supposedly "profesional" organization? Well, yeah, I guess if you're a group of ...
8/06/2009 7:54 pm - Interior Department Releases Study That Tracks Decline Of Glaciers in Alaska and Washington State : Less solar activity. We are currently experiencing a historic solar minimum with lots of record to near record low temperature averages for the summer season, so far, in many cities and states in the northern half of the lower 48 (NYC, Chicago, North Dakota and parts of Wisconsin). We know ...

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