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7/08/2009 11:40 am - Reader Participation Day: What Would You Like to See Added to the National Park System? : Oops. Forgot a few additions. - Angeles National Forest, California - Cleveland National Forest, California - Los Padres National Forest, California
7/08/2009 11:02 am - Reader Participation Day: What Would You Like to See Added to the National Park System? : Here are a few other potential new national parks and existing national park expansions that I would like to see happen. NEW - Adobe Town-Red Desert (BLM lands), Wyoming - Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania - Berkshire Highlands (state lands), Massachusetts - Bioluminescent Bay-Vieques National Wildlife Refuge, Puerto Rico - Black ...
7/08/2009 10:53 am - Reader Participation Day: What Would You Like to See Added to the National Park System? : Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument should definitely be transferred to the National Park Service. The BLM is an agency oriented to livestock grazing, mining, oil and gas, and other resource exploitation, not land preservation. The current Monument has weak protection, with hundreds of miles of roads and ORV trails. The BLM ...
5/21/2009 10:29 am - House Seals Deal To Allow Wide Range of Firearms into The National Park System : This is completely nuts. It shows how far to the right the politics of this country has shifted that this kind of radical legislation can sail through the Congress with barely a whimper. However, it is revealing that the proponents of this legislation, led by ultra-reactionary Sen. Coburn, recognize that ...
8/23/2008 7:16 am - Pruning the Parks: Six National Parks Acquired via Transfer in 1933 Were Subsequently Abolished : Frank_C, I think we agree on the goals here. The question is how best to get there. We have a number of alternatives, none of which is perfect. So we have to use the best one we have and try to make it work as well as possible. Although they ...
8/22/2008 4:06 pm - A Century of National Parks in Utah To be Celebrated Labor Day Weekend : Thanks for the warning, Lone Hiker. Actually, I have been working with the folks at Glen Canyon Institute and am totally aware of the politics of Lake Powell reservoir. I think things are rapidly changing, however. As you probably know, extended drought, rising demand, and global climate change have shrunk ...
8/22/2008 3:44 pm - Pruning the Parks: Six National Parks Acquired via Transfer in 1933 Were Subsequently Abolished : FrankC and Ted, I appreciate your comments, even where we may disagree. As for my previous comments, I wrote them after a long day and I apologize if some things were not well stated. Here is a little more explanation, responding to both of your comments. • [b]Permanence[/b]. I did ...
8/21/2008 9:33 pm - A Century of National Parks in Utah To be Celebrated Labor Day Weekend : SaltSage236, I totally agree. I have been to all of Utah's national park areas (except Rainbow Bridge -- still need to get there). They are all extraordinary. But we also need to expand Utah's existing national parks and create several new national parks, to protect many other lands threatened by ...
8/21/2008 9:16 pm - Pruning the Parks: Six National Parks Acquired via Transfer in 1933 Were Subsequently Abolished : Ted, et al., Nothing in the universe is totally permanent. But in the world of human institutions, America's federal government is the closest thing to perpetuity that we will get. It is literally the oldest democracy, and one of the oldest continuous governments, on earth. Certainly state governments are not ...
8/20/2008 8:30 pm - Pruning the Parks: Six National Parks Acquired via Transfer in 1933 Were Subsequently Abolished : Rick, I totally agree.

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