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 Yellowstone Fire Grows 

Officials say park still safe to visit despite 10,000-acre blaze

Sep 29, 09 3:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - A wildfire at Yellowstone has consumed almost 10,000 acres of pine forest and closed one of the main roads through the national park. Hundreds of firefighters are working to manage the blaze and keep it away from the park infrastructure. The fire has been burning for at least two... More »

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(AP) - Yellowstone National Park officials are crediting relatively low gas prices and the park's affordability after a record number of people visited in July. America's first national park hosted more than 900,500 people last month, up more than 11% from July 2008 and 6% from the previous monthly record set... More »

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vacation • Yellowstone • national park • National Park Service • Yellowstone National Park

ANALYSIS

 Fla. Python Hunt 
 More Wild Goose Chase 


Jul 30, 09 12:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - The “Great Florida Python Hunt” is on, but the prey population is likely smaller—and less dangerous—than advertised, Paul Quinlan writes in the Palm Beach Post. Proponents have said there could be 100-150,000 Burmese pythons in the Everglades, a figure the media has seized upon. But the... More »

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Florida • snake • Bill Nelson • Everglades • predators • burmese python • national park • hunt

TRAVEL

 America's Best National Parks 


Jul 29, 09 6:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - In the recession, international air travel is down and national park attendance is way up. Forbes runs down the crème de la crème of America’s national treasures, but be warned: “It's been incredibly hard to get camping space at most national parks,” one travel... More »

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travel • Alaska • Washington DC • North Carolina • National Mall • Utah • Maine • Tennessee • Hawaii • national park • Acadia National Park • Jay-ZTV • Volcanoes National Park • Denali National Park • Zion National Park • Great Smoky Mountain National Park

OPINION

Michelle, Our National Parks Need You

Only first lady can
stem wilting interest in US' 'attics of history'

Jul 12, 09 10:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Last year, more people visited areas run by the National Parks Service than attended NFL, NBA, MLB, and NASCAR games combined. Still, Timothy Egan writes in the New York Times, the 274 million visits amount to a national crisis. “Our shared outdoor spaces, our attics of history and graveyards... More »

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Michelle Obama • youth • national park • National Park Service • National Parks Conservation Association • home garden

(Newser) - Ben Stein loves Wal-Mart—just don’t put one smack-dab in the middle of a historic Civil War battlefield in Orange, Va. The 1864 Battle of the Wilderness was a turning point in the conflict, Stein writes in the American Spectator, and the “battlefield is incredibly important environmentally and... More »

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United States • America • Virginia • development • Civil War • Ben Stein • Wal-Mart • national park • Ulysses Grant • Battle of the Wilderness • Robert E. Lee

(AP) - The National Park Service is looking to stimulate summer vacations, with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announcing today that entrance fees at 147 national parks and monuments—including the Grand Canyon and Yosemite—will be waived on three weekends this summer: June 20-21, July 18-19, and Aug. 15-16. “During these... More »

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recession • nature • Ken Salazar • recreation • national park • Obama administration • Yosemite National Park • Grand Canyon National Park • free admission

 Pot Farms Sprout 
 in National Parks 

Rangers warn that illicit, cartel-run plantations are on the rise

May 13, 09 3:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - America's park rangers are battling a growing number of marijuana plantations taking root in national parks, NPR reports. Marijuana farms have been found in at least six national parks on the West Coast, where rangers say growers camp in the woods all summer, tending hidden plantations that can't be spotted... More »

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marijuana • drug cartel • national park • Yosemite National Park

Bush Policies Will Blow Through Nat'l Parks for Years

Putting commerce over conservation, White House stifled scientists' protests

Jan 25, 09 1:40 PM CST
(Newser) - Views of spacious skies and purple mountain majesties in US national parks may soon be interrupted by industrial roads and power lines, after years of Bush policies that pushed commerce over conservation, reports the Los Angeles Times. And unlike the many decisions that President Obama can quickly reverse, the changes... More »

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Bush administration • conservation • Department of the Interior • natural resources • oil drilling • national park • National Park Service • Bureau of Land Management

Student May Face Fed Charges for Fake Drilling Bids

Activist infiltrated auction, won 22,000 acres
of federal land at auction in protest

Jan 12, 09 4:40 AM CST
(Newser) - A Utah college activist may face federal charges and jail for making bids he can't afford on scenic tracts in a federal drilling auction last month, the Washington Post reports. Economics student Tim DeChristopher wielded his red auction paddle 13 times to snag $1.8 million in property before federal... More »

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Bush administration • auction • Utah • activist • oil drilling • national park • environmentalists • domestic oil production

 Suicides Up in National Parks 

'08 a big year for people offing themselves in pretty places

Jan 2, 09 12:51 PM CST
(Newser) - A newly unemployed businessman shot himself in the chest in Glacier National Park. A 46-year-old carpenter with cancer climbed into a canoe in the Everglades and never returned. A 49-year-old builder left a note blaming the economy before killing himself in Georgia’s Kennesaw Mountains. They were just some of... More »

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 Guns OK'd in National Parks 

Campers will be allowed to pack heat in all but 3 of America's national parks

Dec 6, 08 6:10 AM CST
(Newser) - Visitors will be allowed to carry concealed and loaded weapons in all but three of America's 391 national parks under a new Bush administration policy, the Washington Times reports. The move, widely seen as a parting gift to the NRA from the president, reverses a 25-year-old Interior Department policy and... More »

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Bush administration • NRA • gun control • Department of the Interior • national park • guns

EPA to Loosen Clean-Air Rules in National Parks

Bush moves to allow coal-fired plants nearer US land preserves

Nov 19, 08 6:29 AM CST
(Newser) - Polluting facilities like coal-fired power plants could soon be allowed to operate closer to national parks, according to documents obtained by the Washington Post. Rules being finalized by the EPA—against strong objections from several officials—will weaken Clean Air Act protections by averaging out emission counts over a year,... More »

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pollution • Clean Air Act • Environmental Protection Agency • air pollution • emissions standards • national park • National Park Service • EPA

 Treats Banned,
 Komodo Dragons Get Nasty

Ban on food offerings 'angers' hungry lizards

Aug 25, 08 5:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Komodo dragons in an Indonesian park are increasingly attacking humans, and villagers who share their habitat say environmentalist policies are to blame, reports the Wall Street Journal. Inhabitants of Komodo National Park have traditionally left deer and sheep for the carnivorous lizards, the largest in the world. But new laws... More »

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Indonesia • environmentalism • deer • hunting • lizard • national park • Komodo dragon • Nature Conservancy

Wild Pot Found in Indiana National Park

Park officials, police plan search-and-destroy mission

Aug 22, 08 4:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - The National Park Service has found wild marijuana growing in a northern Indiana federal park, the Chicago Tribune reports. Officials don't know how many plants are spread throughout the 15,000-acre Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, on Lake Michigan about 30 miles southeast of Chicago, but said they will work with... More »

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War on Drugs • Indiana • marijuana • national park • National Park Service

 Iconic Arch
 in Utah Park
 Collapses

First to fall since 1991

Aug 10, 08 1:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - A popular stone arch collapsed early last week in Utah's Arches National Park, the AP reports. First discovered in 1948, the Wall Arch fell victim to gravity and the very same force that formed the sandstone structure—erosion. "They all let go after a while," said a park... More »

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erosion • Utah • monument • collapse • national park

 Turtle Assists in Pot Bust 

Radio monitoring leads officials to marijuana patch

Aug 1, 08 1:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Agent 99, watch out: A 6-inch-long box turtle known as "No. 72” may want your job. Washington, DC, police recently got an assist from No. 72 in making a drug bust, the Washington Post reports. One of several turtles fitted with transmitters that allow National Park Service researchers to... More »

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crime • law enforcement • Washington DC • marijuana • arrest • national park • turtle • National Park Service

 Grand Canyon Is No Disneyland 

It takes 6,000 workers to keep park visitors safe

Jul 1, 08 6:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Every day from before dawn until around midnight, a staff of thousands unites to keep the Grand Canyon in good condition and its 4.4 million annual visitors safe. NPR travels to the iconic destination to see how it works. "I hope that you are not imagining a pony... More »

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travel • West • Arizona • adventure travel • tourists • national park • Grand Canyon • visitors • Wild West • National Park Service

 Feds May Return
 Badlands to Sioux 

Tribe ousted from Badlands in 1942

Jun 8, 08 8:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The National Park Service might return half of South Dakota's Badlands National Park to the Oglala Sioux, reports the LA Times, some 6 decades after the US military ousted 800 members from the territory during World War II. The measure still needs Congressional approval, and tribal members remain unsure whether... More »

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South Dakota • Native American • Indian Tribes • Native Americans • national park • National Park Service • Sioux

 National Park, Meet Coal Smog 

Over own experts' objections, EPA moves to allow power plants closer to rec areas

Apr 23, 08 4:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Environmental Protection Agency is set to change its rules to allow the construction of coal power plants in previously off-limits areas near national parks, the Christian Science Monitor reports. A draft revision to the Clean Air Act would soften standards of pollution in “Class 1” areas (ie, national... More »

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Bush administration • Clean Air Act • Environmental Protection Agency • power plant • coal power • national park • environmental damage

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