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National Park Service Sued Over Eagle Killing At Valles Caldera National Preserve

Mar 28th - 12:21pm | Bryn

Your opinion is just that, your opinio; to which you're entitled to. But in my opinion you have no voice for what should be allowed for one's culture and religion, especially for those that have been here prior to the creation of the United States.

Mar 28th - 12:18pm | Alex Makowicki

There is a lot of anti tribal sentiment and high horsing going on and it's scary. Most of these comments are about fairness and they shouldn't be allowed to do something I can't. Most people have no reason to kill an eagle so maybe it's hard to understand.

Mar 28th - 12:15pm | Bryn

Do a little research before making an entitled comment saying that the Valles Capdera belongs to all. 

Mar 28th - 09:14am | A. Johnson

Actually, NAs do not have any federally protected rights over golden or bald eagles---the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection  Act (BGEPA) makes that clear.   Who else says?   The US Supreme Court...40 years ago!    US v. Dion (1986)  

Mar 28th - 07:39am | chris...

the idea that a citizen has more "rights" than another US citizen as a result of group membership based on ethinic origen is inherently racist and not in line with the US constiutition.  A tribal member has no more right to kill an endangered species than a member of a biker club, or a Jiu Jitsu club or supremecist party of your liking.  

Mar 28th - 01:59am | Robert Savala

Native Americans have federally protected rights over eagles that supersede local and non native rights.  They won't win the law suit.

Mar 27th - 15:46pm | A. Johnson

Trusting local practices simply because of the racial or ethnic group conducting them is well, racist.  Sorry, it's 2024 and we need to get beyond such prejudices.

Mar 27th - 14:49pm | Andrea S

  I trust the local indigenous cultural practices to be of more beneficial impact to the local ecosystem and species here in New Mexico than anything the federal government has, could, or will do.  

Mar 27th - 07:10am | Chris…

The nps has been cracking down on anting braking the "law" like pierce the actor for walking off trail. kulling a federally protected migratory bird ISs SERIOUS federal crime. chuck Sam's should be charged like any other citizen would. His affiliation with certain groups gives him no more entitlement than any other citizen

Mar 27th - 05:17am | R J Sterling

Ryan, neither are you a member of a threatened species, yet if someone expressed a desire to end your life merely for the sake of his cultural practices, I imagine you would resist the idea. The eagles' lives belong to the eagles, not rightfully to one group of humans or another. They should be left alone. 

Mar 26th - 20:21pm | Ryan....

Neither species of eagle is remotely threatened. If it was indeed to serve a cultural purpose, I fail to see why this is a substantive issue. If the law was violated, some reprimand seems reasonable, but let's not pretend this is egregious or that it would be unreasonable to revise the law to allow for the limited taking of non-threatened species by tribes in some instances.

Mar 26th - 12:37pm | Randall Scott

Laws mean nothing to this administration. 

Mar 26th - 12:28pm | Michael Kellett

This lawsuit is good news. If the NPS opened this decision up to public comment I am sure it would be overwhelmingly opposed.

Mar 26th - 07:54am | chris...

Where is the DOJ charges?  If no one is above the law then why is Chuck Sams not being charged criminally? A white house staffer is in prison- the law is the law... right?

Reader Participation Day: Where Is The Most Breathtaking View In The National Park System?

Mar 28th - 07:36am | Harold Keith Duke

Sunrise and sunset at Bryce Canyon National Park.   #2: Delicate Arch and the entire Arches National Park trail.

Mar 27th - 22:50pm | Enclave

Agreed!

Mar 27th - 22:36pm | M Hughes

Sunrise from Clingman's Dome in thr Smokies - particularly in late fall.

Mar 27th - 22:35pm | M Hughes

Sunrise from Clingman's Dome in thr Smokies - particularly in late fall.

Mar 27th - 21:25pm | Snochasr

Didn't the firefall in Yosemite actually end in about 1966?  

Mar 27th - 20:50pm | J. Ahl

Gazing at the high mountain peaks reaching for the sky and the miles of thick green forest below from Going to the Sun Highway (not as the driver of course!) GNP Montana.

Mar 27th - 19:34pm | Efrain Sain

Big Bend NP - looking out the South Rim towards Mexico. 

Mar 27th - 18:23pm | chris...

The first glimpses of El Capitan on an early dawn morning drive into the valley... Yosemite falls at full roar... Hayden valley in the early morning

Mar 27th - 17:53pm | David Crowl

Watching the trumpeter swans and their offspring on the Madison River by Mt. Haynes

Mar 27th - 14:28pm | Nina A

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

Mar 27th - 13:35pm | Matt M

Strike Valley Overlook in Capitol Reef, Clouds Rest in Yosemite, Point Sublime and Lipan Point at Grand Canyon.

Mar 27th - 12:05pm | Jill C.

Peering into the crater at Haleakala National Park, Maui, Hawaii from  the rim or from a helicopter 

Mar 27th - 11:27am | Snochasr

Valley view in Yosemite or the Arrigetch Peaks or Logan Pass

Mar 27th - 11:15am | A. Johnson

I truly enjoy viewing Squaretop Mtn over Green River Lakes in the Wind River Range of Wyoming.  Never get tired of it.   Okay, it's not NPS, so let me offer #2:  Canyonlands NP:  The Green River overlooks in the Island, and hiking  the Chesler Park Loop in the Needles.  Just wild...and used to be rather quiet.  

Mar 27th - 09:52am | Matt V

The best I have experienced is from Sahale Arm Glacier Camp in the North Cascades. Nothing else compares! 

Mar 27th - 09:05am | Ina Nichols

Sunrise at death valley 

PEER: NPS Remains Plagued By Low Morale, Rising Attrition

Mar 28th - 00:11am | Tru Story

There was this manager once at a National Park who would regularly undercut their direct report in front of the direct report's staff. They also did it behind their back. Anyways, after nearly a year of this the direct report got a job elsewhere and the manager and direct report's staff harassed them so badly they had to take leave until the new job started. 

Inside The Battle To Save The Cats That Call San Juan National Historic Site Home

Mar 27th - 13:26pm | Ines Aviles-Spadoni

There have been various studies which support that trap, neuter, return (TNR) does indeed reduce the numbers of community cats (Levy, et.al.). The issue is the Save A gato is operation on incredibly limited funds and they just don't have the capacity and volunteer base to conduct an effective TNR program to reduce and/or manage the population of community cats.

Operational Updates From Lake Mead National Recreation Area

Mar 27th - 09:21am | Loui

This is great.  Later in the spring can you compile such a report for Glen Canyon?

A Deadly Consequence Of The Hebgen Lake Earthquake

Mar 27th - 08:46am | Anonymous

Several houses and cabins were taken off their foundations by water from the Sieche that rolled back and forth and topped the dam upstream from the campground.  One woman was tossed from her bed into water in her bedroom.  She grabbed her dog's tail and he pulled her to shore.

UPDATE | House Committee Hearing Focuses On Weakening Antiquities Act

Mar 27th - 01:43am | Mike B.

Leave the law as it is, it's working fine.  Teddy Roosevelt would be aghast at his former political party.

Agencies Propose Return Of Grizzly Bears To North Cascades Ecosystem

Mar 27th - 01:34am | Mike B.

Oh yes, let's not ruin the wilderness by restoring inconvenient animals, just turn them all into theme parks.

How Would A Second Trump Presidency Affect The National Park Service And Parks?

Mar 27th - 01:30am | Mike B.

I'm with Lee on this.  I started with Interior under the infamous James Watt but I'm afraid a second Trump administration would be even worse.  The first was plenty bad enough.

Mar 26th - 13:48pm | Doug

Over the course of the history of the US National Park Service only one thing can be said of it all: Nothing changes.  So called conservatives, in the name of personal freedom and exploitation of all land will, and aways have railed agains true conservation.

Mar 26th - 12:25pm | Michael Kellett

Hi Chris, Regarding the situaion in Vermont, my organization, RESTORE: The North Woods, has been following Green Mountain National Forest and Vermont state land management issues for some time. So I take your caveats seriously.

Mar 26th - 09:01am | A. Johnson

Now that I think about it, we need to reintroduce the grizzly in VT.   Let's re-wild the Green Mtns!

Mar 26th - 07:43am | TwinOaks

Not mentioned in Project 2025 but repeaedly mentioned by trump over the past year is his declaration that if given another chance to lead this great nation he will take public lands away from us public land owners so as turn our lands into "Freedom Cities". He says nothing of paying us for our land.

Mar 25th - 22:09pm | Sequoiadendron

"Here in Sequoia NP, almost all of the infrastucture is Mission 66" Sounds like Sequoia AND Kings Canyon NP has an unsustainable amount of infra. "many sections of the Generals Highway that were compromised"

Mar 25th - 19:14pm | ecbuck

Got it wrong again Michael.  Not "on Day 1" but "Except day one".  He jokingly commented he would not be a dictator "Except day one" and specifically mentioned he would use his presidential powers to close the southern border with Mexico and expand oil drilling.  Two powers fully within the Presidential perogative exhibiting no dictatorial traits.  

Mar 25th - 18:26pm | Sequoia

Here in Sequoia NP, almost all of the infrastucture is Mission 66 era goods and woefully inadequate as it is, the main visitor center @ Lodgepole dates from the early 60's, and the mens facilities have 3 toilets and a like amount of urnials for half of the 2 million visitors to do their business. 

Mar 25th - 17:58pm | chris...

  

Mar 25th - 17:40pm | Michael Kellett

Hi ec, No, he did not say he would be a dictator FROM day 1. He said that he would be a dictator ON day 1. Here he is saying it to Hannity on FOX News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQkrWL7YuGk

Mar 25th - 17:24pm | Michael Kellett

Hi Pedro. Yes, I recall that Bob also urged us to, ""Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, no one but ourselves can free our minds."

Mar 25th - 17:16pm | ecbuck

No Michael Trump did not declare he would be a dictator from day 1.

Mar 25th - 15:20pm | Pedro

Hi Michael, like my good friend Bob Marley said, don't worry! All that gloom and doom you're spreading is probably not going to happen. Maybe kick back, relax, and spark one, bro. We're only here for a short time, and you're dark, man! Enjoy life! Get outside! :)

National Parks Traveler Podcast Episode 267 | Padre Island's Sea Turtles

Mar 26th - 20:39pm | Brian Kenner

One thing not mentioned is that in 2010 the NPS initiated a NEPA process to examine vehicle beach access at Pardre Island. In that process various alternatives for limiting beach access were developed, and the one chosen in 2012 was the NPS preferred alternative. That alternative continued vehicle beach access with some restrictions on speed and limited area closures.

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