Crews Remove Garbage From Marijuana Farms in Sequoia National Park
Nearly three tons of garbage and almost six miles of hose have been removed from backcountry marijuana farms in Sequoia National Park.
- By Kurt Repanshek - March 18th, 2008 3:28pm
Plight of the Parks
Groups Ask Congressmen To Help Halt Killing of Yellowstone National Park Bison
As the killing of Yellowstone National Park bison continues, a coalition of groups is looking for congressional support to fund a solution.
MT Delegation RTR letter 3-11-08.pdf
- By Kurt Repanshek - March 17th, 2008 12:23pm
Snowmobilers Continue to Roam Illegally Into Yellowstone National Park
There's a section of Yellowstone National Park not too far south of the park's West Entrance where access is tricky no matter what the season. But in winter, when the snow is deep, rogue snowmobilers find their way into the park to play.
- By Kurt Repanshek - March 13th, 2008 2:10pm
House Parks Committee To Hold Hearing On ORVs on Federal Lands
If you've got time tomorrow afternoon, you might want to pull up the live feed from a congressional hearing examining off-road vehicle use on public lands.
- By Kurt Repanshek - March 12th, 2008 6:11pm
Sen. Obama Non-committal on Carrying Loaded Weapons in National Parks
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama believes in Americans' rights to own guns, but isn't so sure there's a need for them to be carried in national parks.
- By Kurt Repanshek - March 10th, 2008 9:31am
Battle Mounts Over Off-Road Vehicles at Cape Hatteras National Seashore
For years folks have used off-road vehicles to negotiate some of the farther reaches of Cape Hatteras National Seashore. And for years the National Park Service failed to develop a management plan for those ORVers. And now it's time to pay the piper.
- By Kurt Repanshek - March 9th, 2008 6:44pm
Violent Deaths in the National Parks
During 2006, 11 homicides were investigated across the national park system. Two involved women who had been pushed off cliffs, one was a suicide, and one was the victim of a DUI accident.
- By Kurt Repanshek - March 4th, 2008 9:59am
Poaching Trees from Redwood National Park
Illegal poaching of resources from national parks has a long, unsettling history. In Great Smokies, it’s ginseng poaching. In Petrified Forest, it’s thievery of fossilized trees.
- By Chance Finegan - October 22nd, 2011 11:20am
Of Geologists, Paleontologists, And Science in the National Park System
Since boyhood I've embraced a vision of the National Park Service as an agency that not only cared for forested mountains, shimmering lakes, foaming cataracts, dusty trails and a wildlife menagerie that stretched from alligators to wolverines, but also as one with a science mission built around these wonders. How accurate is that vision?
- By Kurt Repanshek - March 2nd, 2008 7:53pm
Carrying Guns in the National Parks -- Is This Being Fast-Tracked?
Interior Department officials, no doubt with an eye on the election calendar, are wasting no time in their bid to rewrite laws pertaining to carrying guns in the national parks.
DOI Gun Memo.pdf
- By Kurt Repanshek - February 29th, 2008 11:32am
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