Op-Ed | Privilege: A Required Qualification To Work With The National Park Service
You need an incredible amount of privilege to work for the National Park Service.
- By Kurt Repanshek - April 19th, 2024 10:30am
Op-Ed Columns
Op-Ed | To Protect National Parks, We Must Take Urgent Climate Action Now
National parks are among America’s most beloved institutions, yet they face a grave threat. Climate change is here, and we need to act quickly to protect our parks from its worst consequences.
- By Kurt Repanshek - September 27th, 2023 2:30am
Op-Ed | Time For Mount Rainier To Institute A Timed-Entry System?
Is it time for Mount Rainier National Park to implement a time-entry reservation system?
- By Rebecca Latson - August 18th, 2023 2:45am
Op-Ed | Tribes Shouldn't Be Given Control Over Yellowstone Bison
Ecologist George Wuerthner takes exception to the Buffalo Field Campaign's effort to see tribes given co-stewardship of Yellowstone National Park's bison herds.
- By NPT Staff - July 4th, 2023 3:00am
Op-Ed | It's Time To Designate A National Petroglyph
If one looks to distant continents, they will see deserts and mountains, many similar to ours. Carved in stone are wildlife figures, some 10,000 years old. The inscriptions celebrate the essence of being – spirit, animal, earth, and sky.
- By NPT Staff - June 4th, 2023 10:27am
Op-Ed | The Douglas Fir National Monument Proposal
Some of the most spectacular forests of Douglas fir in the West are found on the west slope of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon. Though heavily logged by the timber industry for its straight-grained wood over the years, some important examples of these once-extensive old-growth forests can still be found in western Oregon.
- By Kurt Repanshek - March 27th, 2023 2:30am
Op-Ed | Checking In On America The Beautiful
With less than two years remaining in their current term, now is the time for the Biden administration to implement additional policies and reforms that will help ensure the protection of our national parks, public lands and waters, wildlife, biodiversity, and climate.
- By Kurt Repanshek - March 2nd, 2023 2:30am
Op-Ed | Feral Horses Should Be Removed From Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Theodore Roosevelt National Park has proposed eliminating feral horses and domestic livestock from the park. Unlike the fiasco at Point Reyes National Seashore, where the National Park Service appears to support maintaining domestic livestock within the park unit, the staff at Theodore Roosevelt recommends reducing the number of domestic animals to zero. Management of feral horses and domestic cattle across the West has been contentious for decades.
- By Kurt Repanshek - February 15th, 2023 2:45am
Op-Ed | New York Times Promotes Logging In Yosemite National Park
The New York Times recently published an article titled At Yosemite, A Preservation Plan That Calls For Chainsaws. The idea that we need to log the forest to create healthy forests in a national park is a major threat to the management policies of the National Park Service, which generally promotes natural ecological and evolutionary processes.
- By Kurt Repanshek - August 1st, 2022 2:30am
Op-Ed | Big Cypress Should Be Off-Limits For Oil Exploration, Production
It's time to take oil drilling in Big Cypress off the table.
- By Kurt Repanshek - April 13th, 2022 2:30am
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