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QUESTIONS: National Park Service in trouble?
Some friends have been telling me that national parks they've been to this summer as looking kind of shabby, like they're really in need of major repairs and maintenance. I remember news coverage earlier this...
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TALK: Amazing contrast
I’m not going to add any of my own thoughts on this, other than to note the amazing distance between the positions of recent press releases by the National Park Service and the Public Employees...
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TALK: Leave no trace (of anything)
The Outdoor Writer (http://www.theoutdoorwire.com) this morning carries an interesting piece on the issue of human waste in popular national park destinations. When you answer the call of nature, there are occasionally other calls that simply can't...
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TALK: Maybe there's a reason they're not native to these shores
The list of invasive exotic species that humans have moved from their natural environment into a new environment, where they never existed before, and much to the detriment of that new environment, continues to grow at an...