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  • 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 ...
  • 1/30/2008 9:30 am - Strange Bedfellows: The National Park Service and the American Recreation Coalition : Another excellent and provocative post, Kurt. There is one point of good news...I think the cozying up of ARC to NPS and vice-versa has diminished measurably under the current Director, compared to her predecessor. But there is still too much of it! Bill Wade Chair, Executive Council Coalition of National ...
  • 11/16/2007 7:19 pm - The Yellowstone Precedent : Excuse me - your assertions are inaccurate. While you are correct that snowmobiles were allowed in YELL for a decade or so until the late 1990s, the leaders of YELL and the NPS then analyzed the science and determined that the resources were being damanged. They then initiated efforts ...