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Conservation Groups File Lawsuit To Protect Predators On Park Lands

Efforts by the Trump administration to weaken hunting and trapping restrictions on national park lands in Alaska were challenged Wednesday by a coalition of conservation and environmental groups that argued the rule change violated the National Park Service Organic Act and was arbitrary and capricious.
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Trump Administration Forces National Park Service To Weaken Its Hunting Regulations In Alaska

In a move critics say runs contrary to the National Park Service's mission to manage for naturally-functioning ecosystems and processes, the agency in Alaska is relaxing its hunting and trapping prohibitions in national preserves so they'll align with the state's regulations.

Threatened And Endangered Parks: Alaska

As delegates from nearly 200 countries gathered for the recent international conference on climate change, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres decried the “utterly inadequate” global response to the crisis so far. He warned that the “point of no return is no longer over the horizon” but that “It is in sight and hurtling toward us.” Nowhere are the consequences more visibly “hurtling,” and landing, than in Alaska. And in the northern state’s national parks and preserves, that means growing pressures on the very resources the National Park Service is charged with protecting.
  • By Anonymous - September 15th, 2020 9:50am

Strong Winds Pick Up Volcanic Ash From 1912 Eruption At Katmai National Park And Preserve

More than a century ago, the Novarupta Volcano erupted with such vigor, tossing more than three cubic miles of magma, that it was deemed to be the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century. Though it occurred more than 107 years ago, that eruption continues to cause problems.

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