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Traveler Special Report: Lack Of Dollars Crippling National Park Facilities For Staff And Visitors

Craftsmanship flowed through the main building and surrounding cabins the Civilian Conservation Corps built above the Current River in the hill country of southeastern Missouri. But the passage of nearly nine decades has taken a toll on the Big Springs Lodge and Cabins at today's Ozark National Scenic Riverways, where the National Park Service shuttered the buildings four years ago until they could be rehabilitated.

Public Input Sought Regarding Mine Operations On Death Valley’s Border

The operators of a gold mine located just outside Death Valley National Park’s western border have proposed modifications to their plan of operations. Most of the proposed changes relate to mining activities on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, but the plan also includes modifications to the mine’s piping of water from Sourdough Spring within the park.

Donkey Rescue Group To Relocate Burros From Death Valley National Park

Burros set free by long-ago prospectors who failed to strike it rich in the landscape now known as Death Valley National Park have steadily increased in number. Today there are an estimated 2,000 of these non-native animals in the park. Within five years, that number could be virtually wiped out under an agreement the park has reached with a Texas organization.

Counter-Culture Art, Soaking Springs, And Palm Trees; How Should Death Valley's Saline Springs Be Managed?

While humans have been soaking in the warm springs found in the remote Saline Valley of Death Valley National Park for perhaps thousands of years, use during the past 50 or so years has the National Park Service taking a look at how the area is being used and what needs to be done to guide visitor use there. The Beat generation and the hippies had their way with it, the Park Service notes, but how should what they created be managed going forward?

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