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Updated: NPS Director Jarvis Ends "Core Ops" Budgeting Across The National Park System

In a brief, four-paragraph memorandum, National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis has brought to an end a controversial budgeting process that stripped arguably key positions from parks. Dubbed "core ops" for its approach to analyzing a park's core operations, the process failed to produce wise budgeting decisions, the director said in a letter to his regional directors.
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County In Wyoming Sues National Park Service Over Snowmobile Numbers in Yellowstone National Park

Although only a fraction of the snowmobile traffic that enters Yellowstone National Park comes in through the park's East Entrance, the Wyoming county that is the gateway to that entrance has sued the National Park Service over limits on how many snowmobiles can enter the park.

Endangered Species Coalition Lists 10 Species Endangered By Climate Change

A small turtle from the eastern U.S. A species of trout native to Glacier and North Cascades national parks. Grizzly bears. A prairie orchard. A coral. These are among the ten plant, fish, animal, and bird species listed in a new report as being the "hottest" species imperiled by climate change.
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To Thoroughly Explore the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail, You’ll Need to Bring Your Boat

The Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail, which traces the Chesapeake Campaign of the War of 1812, is so new that actual trail segments haven’t even been defined yet. Waterway segments add a novel twist to a complex set of routes commemorating a British invasion that captured Washington, burned the White House, and inspired our national anthem.