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  • 11/20/2009 10:07 am - Traveler's Checklist: Death Valley National Park : I agree with Quang-Tuan, although you need to know how to drive a dirt road (don't get high-centered, put your tires on the rock and not your oil pan, etc.). I'm one of those people who actually _does_ run the rental car through the car wash before returning it! But ...
  • 11/20/2009 10:00 am - Bison Will Soon Roam Again at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve : Bob-- When I visited Tallgrass Prairie in the early 1990s, there were still bison wallows from the previous century. If you have flexibility in your schedule, try to go in September to catch the visitor day at [url=http://kpbs.konza.ksu.edu/visitorsday.html]Konza Prairie LTER[/url], less than an hour north of Tallgrass Prairie NP on ...
  • 11/20/2009 9:30 am - Sunset and Moonlight Hikes and Talks at Saguaro National Park : 1: I highly recommend these hikes. Up in the Chisos in Big Bend can be even more spectacular, with a moonlit view of a huge expanse of desert. 2: Since establishment, there have been at least 2 major pushes to decommission Saguaro National Monument because it appeared that the saguaros ...
  • 11/19/2009 12:42 pm - Mystery Plant: This “Tree from Hell” Smells Like Rancid Peanut Butter : I've got it in 87 NPS units, although 40 don't flag it as "weedy": ANAC, ANTI, APCO, APPA, ASIS, BAND, BISO, BLRI, BOHA, BOWA, BUFF, CACO, CALO, CARE, CARL, CATO, CAVE, CHAT, CHCH, CHOH, COLO, CORO, COWP, CUGA, CUIS, CUVA, DEVA, DEWA, EISE, ELRO, FONE, FOVA, FRHI, FRSP, GARI, GATE, ...
  • 11/18/2009 4:11 pm - National Park Service Opposes Redesignation Of Pinnacles National Monument as a National Park : I'm not sure that NPS wants to stick their neck out too far in opposing almost anything in congress unless it has a major impact on NPS resources. While it isn't quite "salute and obey", legislative enemies are to be avoided. Perhaps a fair summary was that the NPS testimony ...
  • 11/18/2009 3:58 pm - Lawsuit Aims to Halt Uranium Mine Near Grand Canyon National Park : Anon #2 & 3-- The BLM land around Grand Canyone NP is not being managed as if it were a National Park. There's a land-management concept of buffer zones. Some uses that aren't allowed in one area are very appropriate in adjacent areas, as their effects don't extend very far. ...
  • 11/12/2009 11:34 pm - Collecting National Park T-Shirts: The Passion and the Pain : I collected posters. [url=http://www.charleyharperprints.com/Harper%20Posters_6.html]Specifically, Charley Harper posters.[/url] At parks. $7-10. No ordering from GPO. At one time I could identify each species represented in the desert poster. I only had 6 of the posters when he died. [There are 11 that I know of if you count the Santa Rosa ...
  • 11/12/2009 3:29 pm - Split Appellate Court Erects Another Roadblock to World's Largest Dump Next to Joshua Tree National Park : [url=http://www.latimes.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-us-desert-dump,0,307494.story]LA Times[/url]: (not much) [url=http://www.mydesert.com/article/20091111/NEWS0802/911110308/-1/newsfront/Court-nixes-proposal-for-dump-near-Joshua-Tree]Desert Sun[/url] (a map) [url=http://www.pe.com/localnews/rivcounty/stories/PE_News_Local_E_eagledump11.4644444.html]Press-Enterprise[/url] You can google news for more; the 2005 stories tend to be more informative
  • 11/11/2009 10:42 pm - Split Appellate Court Erects Another Roadblock to World's Largest Dump Next to Joshua Tree National Park : You aren't going to drive past the former mine / proposed landfill on your way to JOTR: the mine is in the "hole" intruding into the park from the SE, and there are no entrance roads anywhere near there (there is a 4wd road, but it has a gate a ...
  • 11/06/2009 12:39 pm - Wolves, Moose, and Nutrient Flows at Isle Royale National Park : My other web server is down, so I'll only leave these up for a couple of days. [url=http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/monitor/stats/docs/Wolves.pdf]The wolves Isle Royale paper[/url] [url=http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/monitor/stats/docs/bison.pdf]Bison in Konza prairie[/url] [url=http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/monitor/stats/docs/dairy.pdf]dairy cows[/url] [url=http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/monitor/stats/docs/N_cycling_Yellowstone_NP.pdf]Bison urine in Yellowstone leading to increased nutrient loss due to increased denitrification or leeching in urine concentrations [/url]