National Parks Traveler

Hopefully, these race-based--and likely illegal-- "agreeements" will be rescinded on or about Jan. 20, 2025.   OUR nat'l parks belong to us, and the NPS has been assigned to manage them, not some unvetted and unaccountable groups.   These are OUR parks.  All of us.

Whatever happens, won't all that silt end up foing the same thing in Lake Mead?

Given the rareity of the white deer is it also a protected variation from hunting in general or does it fall under the general deer hunting guidelines for that area.

If they really wanted to serve the public they would reopen the 4 closed campgrounds and hold back on all the construction projects.

Thank you for such a helpful overview! 

We have stayed in many campgrounds over the years and have realized that many campers DO NOT have the skills to start or maintain a clean campfire. They purchase bundles of wood but don't have kindling, or wood that isn't seasoned, burning trash, leaves, accelerant, motor oil, pressure treated wood. The whole campground and surrounding neighborhood are full of smoke.

A seiche is a continual wave ossilation. That is not happned here. A tsunami is caused by large-scale seismic events like undersea earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or landslides that displace a massive volume of water. Waves caused by landslides in lakes are tsunamis.

Your so-called safety can be perfectly protected by choosing another job. Your unfounded fears do not trump the rights of others.  Non-holders of credit/debit cards have as much right to visit our national treasures as anybody else. 

What about the Ocmulgee Mounds Park and Preserve Establishment Act? I understand it passed the senate this week, and should be working through the House along a similar timeframe.

Excellent news !

This will "open up more equitable public access to the Bay". What drivel.  No one is denied access to the Bay.  There are MD and VA state and county parks galore. Just more park barrel to further dilute the NPS budget.  Good job Sen Van Hollen.

You know how people fall there?  They get entirely too close to the edge for comfort because they are overconfident in their abilities. 

I think a fair deal with the increase.  Maybe the cabins on South Rim are a bit high, but for camping $30 a night given all the amenities seems fair.

With a 22 Billion dollar maintenance backlog, the Park Service doesn't need $15 million for this trail at Sleeping Bear.

This whole system is more corrupt than the India mofia. just to inform anybody, "they can't make you pay to travel on public roads. Every time I refuse to pay when I travel through Estes national Park the gatekeeper tells me as long as I don't stop and enjoy our park. I am allowed to pass through. I always tell them whatever..

Trump should transfer mangement of the NPS, BLM and USFS to the tribes. There is a growing movement advocating for Native American tribes to manage National Park Service (NPS), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and U.S. Forest Service (USFS) lands.

The so-called Courthouse on SRA property, as per your article, is not the original structure erected in 1866 by Charles Converse in the town of Millerton. The original building was town down by BOR in the 1930's, and its materials stored where the Millerton CalFire station is now located.

I meant some tangible, permanent honor like naming a campsite after him, or one of the visitor centers, or a memorial plaque/garden...something like that.   What a tragedy.

We specifically booked an NCL cruise for middle October 2024 because of the stopover in Bar Harbor and the Acadia NP access. Two weeks before we disembarked the cruise line informed us that we would no longer be stopping in Bar Harbor but would backtrack from Portland to Boston. We were gutted by the change. The entire reason we booked this cruise was for the stops in Maine and Canada. 

God help us all after this last election, especially the vulnerable wildlife and our cherished lands.

As the first superintendent of Big Cypress National Preserve, I would also express my disappointment with the continuing trends of the BICY management to lessen the focus on protecting BICY's critical natural resources, ignore and misinterpret BICY's founding legislation and legislative history, and continue to place an emphasize on a "multiple use" concept for managing recreational uses within