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  • 8/08/2008 7:48 am - Creating Cape Cod National Seashore Forced the National Park Service to Think Outside the Box : Bob - you make so few mistakes (and even the ones you make are provocative in the best way !), and your readers so much enjoy your pieces, my guess is you get 100% credit for everything you do for us.
  • 7/02/2008 7:11 pm - National Park System Quiz 9: The American Revolution : Dear Rangertoo: There IS an 'authenticity of place' for its own sake, and not only with a battlefield, and it is more than just the original historic structure. Even though old Federal Hall is gone, it really does matter that the site on which Federal Hall National Memorial was built ...
  • 7/02/2008 8:13 am - Yellowstone National Park Bison Unhappy With Photo Shoot Tosses Pennsylvania Boy : Well, Ann & Jim, just an example of how the NPS is being politically undermined in this process, in case you did not know it: During the Clinton Administration (YES, the CLINTON ADMINISTRATION) the Congress went Republican. That meant Republicans got control of the NPS budget through the Appropriations ...
  • 7/01/2008 7:57 pm - Senators Pushing To Allow Concealed Weapons in National Parks : Dear Anonymous: I was thinking about your comment " this is not about bears.. . . this is a right of the people. . " You make this sound as if a Right does not have a practical basis. All the points were put there in the constitution because ...
  • 7/01/2008 7:28 pm - Yellowstone National Park Bison Unhappy With Photo Shoot Tosses Pennsylvania Boy : Gee, Cindy and Ann: Please Chill Out ! All this hostility cannot improve your objectivity. Ann, the NPS is NOT just a pawn of the Cattleman Association, as they are boxed in by a hostile Administration in the White House, whose favorite Governors are actively undermining NPS authority. So ...
  • 7/01/2008 7:14 pm - Former NPS Director George Hartzog Passes : HARTZOG OBIT Here below is an Obit for Director Harzog, published today. Although it smacks of hagiography, the broad scope is accurate. At the time of his firing by the Nixon administration, two stories circulated at the time that are different than the one presented below, that personally blames President ...
  • 6/30/2008 7:49 am - Former NPS Director George Hartzog Passes : NOT ENTIRELY FAIR ABOUT BOMAR: Director Bomar's piece "about" Director "Hartzog" actually does reference Director Hartzog or his wife by name six times. In the same message, she refers to "I" or "Me" or "I'm" NINE times. That is not as bad as the comment, as it amounts to ...