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  • 11/07/2009 10:04 am - National Park Service Director Jarvis Reminds Employees To Be Ethical in All They Do : Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men
  • 11/06/2009 9:38 pm - How Many Wolves Are Enough In Washington State? : There was a well-attended WA wolf plan meeting Nov. 5th on the Olympic Penisula: http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20091106/NEWS/311069994
  • 11/05/2009 8:38 am - Skiing On Mount Rainier, Where You Really Earn Your Turns : For a view from the far left edge of the backcountry skiing opportunity spectrum at Mount Rainier, check out this ten minute helmet-cam video. Jumping crevasses in sketchy late-season ice conditions seems exciting enough, but skiing the Emmons glacier from the summit, twice in one day? I love his long ...
  • 11/05/2009 8:04 am - How Many Wolves Are Enough In Washington State? : Wolves came back to Washington state many years ago. There are already packs in the Methow and eastern recovery areas that regularly make the news: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009307261_wolves06m.html http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009469306_apwasecondwolvepack.html At least one breeding pair was documented at North Cascades National Park as far back as 1990: http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19910609&slug=1287917
  • 10/25/2009 6:28 pm - Yosemite National Park Says "No Thanks" to Major Cycling Race : Mount Rainier has the annual RAMROD bike circuit, normally sixty miles within the park with no vehicle closure: http://www.redmondcyclingclub.org/RAMROD/RAMROD_course_information.html#Rider_Support
  • 10/15/2009 10:50 am - Reader Participation Day: What Epic Treks in the National Parks Are on Your To-Do List? : "Trip of a lifetime"? How about the fellow who spent 17 years hiking all 16,500 miles of the eleven National Scenic trails: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/outdoors/2009991831_trailguy03m.html These are way out of my league anymore, but I'd like to suggest a couple more manageable epic treks at Olympic. There's the entire Bailey Range-Mount Olympus ...
  • 10/09/2009 7:12 am - The Priceless Value of Parks: Wounded Warrior Rafting Trip at Dinosaur National Monument : I'd like to applaud all veterans and the many local groups helping them. Thank you all for your service to our country. Here's a similarly inspiring story from last year about a wounded veteran, one the few blind persons to have summited Mount Rainier: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008045927_rainier11m0.html
  • 10/06/2009 11:23 am - Fall and Winter Are Prime Seasons for Camping in These Parks : For winter backcountry camping, my favorite is Grand Canyon. One can ski across the North Rim and drop in to seldom visited archeological sites, wild waterfalls and caves, even trout fishing. Water and natural shelter are relatively plentiful, so pack contents can be mostly food and warm gear. The short ...
  • 10/06/2009 9:39 am - Olympic National Park Boosts Stream Flows to Help Salmon, But Might Not Be Enough : "The water level may drop too low to allow use of the Lake Mills boat ramp...": http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009310049981
  • 10/06/2009 9:36 am - Organization Forms to Promote Expansion of National Park System : No doubt there are many locales deserving of National Park status and existing NPS units that need to be expanded to succeed as ecologic reserves. More urban and Eastern parks would surely help build support for the National Park idea. On the other hand, Congress and NPS management have given ...