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  • 7/02/2009 5:31 pm - Is the National Park Service Wise to Be Promoting The Use of Segways? : Objectively... In the hot & humid Southeast U.S., which will include the Timucuan Preserve near Jacksonville, Florida, there is a long-established military protocol designed to limit & control exertion in accordance with weather conditions. Even hardcore Marine bootcamp observes a graduated series of restrictions on exertion. So in terms specifically ...
  • 7/02/2009 1:27 pm - Does the Federal Government Really Want to Seize Six California State Parks? : From the sound of it, the Fed could be open to court action if it does not enforce the conditions of the deed transfers to California. Who would see it as in their interest to file the lawsuit(s), I don't know. Certainly, California's behavior is giving 'drunken sailors' a good ...
  • 7/02/2009 11:54 am - Americans' Dream Vacation in 2009? That'd Be A National Park Visit According to Survey : I won't give it short shrift off-hand, but won't be assuming that its bald conclusions are the simple truth, either. Not until we have better transparency. Without access to the "guts" of the survey, statements & interpretations derived from the questionaire could mean a wide range of things ... almost ...
  • 7/01/2009 8:45 pm - Reader Participation Day: Tell Us Your "Dream" National Park Vacation : Frank C, Beamis - c'mon, now! The invitation is to dream-up your "dream" vacation. Here's a brief example to set the tone. Fly to the last airport. Drive to the end of the road. Put in at the furthest river and float for 3 days past the last sign of ...
  • 7/01/2009 5:16 pm - Have You Seen the National Park Service's Redesigned Web Portal Yet? : I visited the new website with images turned off in the browser, which is my normal web-mode. Although my status as an endangered dial-up surfer is now (finally!) about to go the way of the dinosaurs, bandwidth usage will continue to be important for those who want to use the ...
  • 7/01/2009 1:02 pm - Studies Show Bear Spray More Effective Than Guns Against Grizzlies : Obviously, one can carry both a firearm and bear spray, at the same time. There is nothing mutually exclusive about the two tools. Bear-spray is intended to perform like a chemical shot-gun - extra powerful and not aim-sensitive: To defend against sudden & close attack (human or animal), the weapon ...
  • 1/10/2009 11:24 am - Park Rangers, Active and Retired, Lament Change in Gun Rules for National Parks : Kurt, There was no sarcasm in my observations about the high level of gay usage in the Olympic Peninsula backcountry. Warren brought 'civil rights' into the thread [i]explicitly[/i] in the context of 'gay rights'. You responded to him, expressing reservations about the thread-drift, and indicated that you were "curious" whether ...
  • 1/10/2009 11:09 am - Earthquakes Continuing to Rattle Yellowstone National Park : K Gies, For every "supereruption" there are a thousand "big eruptions", and for every one of those there is a thousand "little eruptions". Neither science nor the government can really tell reliably which of those 'events' a sustained pattern of 'warning activity' will lead to - if anything at all. ...
  • 1/10/2009 10:53 am - Park Rangers, Active and Retired, Lament Change in Gun Rules for National Parks : [b]Warren & Kurt viz Parks, Gay Rights, and Drift[/b] Kurt cracked the door:[quote]"Perhaps someone can spin [(gay) civil rights] in a fashion that does tie it to the parks, and I'd be curious to see that one."[/quote] I believe that gays are over-represented on the 'intermediate to advanced' backcountry trails. ...
  • 1/10/2009 10:12 am - Park Rangers, Active and Retired, Lament Change in Gun Rules for National Parks : Hobblefoot, Yes, the original publishers of these 'talking points' would (hopefully) have more in mind than solely to inflame the pro-gun faction. Sure - that's how it's supposed to be done. With the more skilled practitioners, such statements as these intentionally deliver a different message, and have a different effect ...