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8/08/2009 4:13 pm - Scuttlebutt Has It That A Hold Has Been Placed On the Nomination of Jon Jarvis as National Park Service Director : We've heard the same thing, and to make Senator Coburn even more of an aggravating so-and-so, we've heard that the hold has nothing to do with guns, with Jarvis or even with the NPS, but has something to do with border security issues. Since Coburn held the credit card right ...
6/21/2009 4:01 pm - Unresolved Search-and-Rescue Cases Are Scattered Throughout the National Parks : As you briefly mention, the Martin case was a classic. A number of things can be said about it, but perhaps most important is its role on training SAR Incident Commanders in the years since it happened. When I transferred to Albright Training Center in early 1973, I was lucky ...
2/22/2009 6:33 pm - What Would Wildlife Say About Concealed Carry in National Parks? : As an old friend of mine used to say: "Wolves don't vote, piping plovers don't lobby, and ginseng doesn't contribute to political candidates...unfortunately!! Bill Wade Chair, Executive Council Coalition of National Park Service Retirees
1/07/2009 4:53 pm - NPCA, Park Retirees File Lawsuit to Halt Change in National Park Gun Rules : Bill Wade Chair, Executive Council Coalition of National Park Service Retirees Ted - I object to you categorizing CNPSR as a lobbyist in the same breath as Exxon. The law requires an organization to register if it has lobbyists. CNPSR is a non-profit 501c3 and has to report on any ...
1/07/2009 4:21 pm - NPCA, Park Retirees File Lawsuit to Halt Change in National Park Gun Rules : Bill Wade Chair, Executive Council Coalition of National Park Service Retirees Well, Frank the facts are these: the entire Executive Council of CNPSR, duly elected by the members, voted unanimously to support this suit. And, while I suspect every single person in CNPSR doesn't agree 100 percent, the way our ...
7/23/2008 9:10 am - Why Stop At Golden Gate National Recreation Area? What Other NRAs, Monuments, Etc., Should Be Renamed? : As some on this site will know, the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees is on record (and pushing in every way we know how) for the establishment of a Centennial Commission to analyze many of the existing institutional processes and the overall governance of the National Park System. Such ...
7/07/2008 1:29 pm - Will The Superintendent's Summit Chart The Path For The National Park Service's Next Chapter? : We've been critical of this conference for several reasons - we think it tends to be largely politically driven; its cost-benefit (for two days, as the previous commenter points out) is questionable; and it comes at a very bad time of year for some parks/superintendents. But it's unfair, at least ...
6/01/2008 7:47 pm - Traveler's View: Concealed Weapons Have No Place In Our National Park System : Rick - you say, "I'll say this until you are blue in the face: give me one example of a citizen with a concealed carry permit who has committed a violent crime in your sacred national park system - or any place in our country." I say, give me one ...
5/27/2008 9:44 am - Traveler's View: Concealed Weapons Have No Place In Our National Park System : Kurt - thank you for your principled position on this issue. Those who support the proposal to allow concealed guns in national parks ignore professional park rangers and managers, the statistical data that show that national parks are among the safest places to be in America, and the important concept ...
2/12/2008 2:22 pm - Dinosaur National Monument Cutting Paleontology Staff : In all likelihood, this is another example of cutting essential programs that is derived from the "core operations" process - the brainchild of Mike Snyder, the Regional Director in the Intermountain Region of the NPS, in which Dinosaur NM is located. Another recent example of this is the effort to ...

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