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  • 8/10/2008 5:18 am - Backcountry Volunteer Survives 100 Foot Fall While Canyoneering at Zion National Park : What's up with park volunteers and employees going out and getting themselves hurt? I thought that was for us - the dumb park visitors!!! I sure hope Kaitlyn pulls through. When we last visited Zion two years ago, we encountered the gal from the backcountry desk out on the Horse ...
  • 3/11/2008 8:03 pm - Would a Change in Gun Laws Be a Threat to National Park Bears? : News flash today: Mountain lion attacks boy celebrating birthday. Father shoots lion to save son. On Animal Planet: A bird watcher surprises a female grizzly and her cubs and is mauled; a female mountain biker is attacked by a 130 pound mountain lion. And on the Biography Channel: The Yosemite ...
  • 3/03/2008 10:33 pm - Would a Change in Gun Laws Be a Threat to National Park Bears? : The park rangers aren't even around to catch poachers cutting down redwood trees. And we are supposed to expect them to be around to protect us from attacks from animals or drug dealers in the back country? My wife and I are thinking of avoiding national parks in the future ...
  • 2/29/2008 9:46 pm - Would a Change in Gun Laws Be a Threat to National Park Bears? : Julie Helgeson and Michelle Koons would probably still alive today if just one person in their party or a nearby party had a firearm available. In fact, many of the persons listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_bear_attacks_in_North_America_by_decade might still be here. Not all, but many.
  • 2/16/2008 11:36 am - University Shooting Doesn't Bring A Halt to Interior Department's Review of Weapons Ban in Parks : Kurt, you fail to mention the Trolley Square Mall is a gun-free zone. No law-abiding citizen would have been carrying a gun in the mall. The off-duty officer was from Ogden, not Salt Lake City, and unless specifically allowed by local law, was violating the gun-free zone. Here in Wisconsin ...
  • 2/08/2008 9:41 am - Venturing Into the Backcountry of the National Park System : The front county is just a place to register, get some last minute supplies, and bump into hordes of people and traffic. The backcountry is where the real beauty & excitement are at!
  • 11/12/2007 9:18 pm - Park History: Theodore Roosevelt National Park : My wife and I stopped at TRNP South Unit for an afternoon on our way out to Olympic this past summer. We were really entertained by all the prairie dogs along the road. And the bison nursing her calf in the middle of the road. We had to wait for ...
  • 10/10/2007 2:10 pm - Visitation At Olympic National Park Up Nearly 16 Percent : We try to do our part. My wife is in a race with a coworker to fill up their National Parks Passport. Since we got married 16 years ago, we have been to the following National Parks/Monuments/Sites: Zion, Bryce, Capitol Reef, Canyonlands, Glen Canyon, Arches, Grand Canyon, Aztec Ruins, White ...
  • 9/21/2007 9:59 pm - Arches and Canyonlands In the Fall: Rock Architecture and Dwindling Crowds : There are 10 BLM campgrounds along Highway 128, the Colorado River Road, just north of Moab. We stayed at Goose Island just over a year ago and really like the quiet. And it was a very short drive to Arches. There was no water available, but then I wasn't paying ...