Traveler's View | Things I'd Like To See In 2025
Here we are, five days into 2025. A fresh year is before us, waiting with promise. What will it deliver?
- By Kurt Repanshek - January 5th, 2025
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Traveler's View | A Look At The Past Four Years
It's been a tumultuous four years for the National Park System and the National Park Service, with powerful storms and wildfires sweeping the parks, insufficient funding and declining staff when you consider the addition of ten units since President Biden took office, and some questionable decisions.
- By Kurt Repanshek - December 30th, 2024
Traveler's View: Round 'Em Up, Move 'Em Out
The National Park Service and its attorneys, the Justice Department, are running counter to the National Park Service Organic Act, and arguably to the aspirational goals of the Endangered Species Act, in their refusal to remove feral horses from Cumberland Island National Seashore.
- By Kurt Repanshek - September 22nd, 2024
Traveler's View: National Park Service Has Its Blinders On At Cumberland Island
A decade after the National Park Service acknowledged feral horses at Cumberland Island National Seashore are a nonnative species that has damaged natural, cultural, and historical resources and that a management plan needed to be developed for them, the agency still lacks such a plan and has endorsed a defense of legal technicalities to oppose emergency food and water for them.
- By Kurt Repanshek - September 5th, 2024
Traveler's View: No One's Talking
The National Park Service has a toxic problem that no one wants to talk about, and that’s a problem.
Traveler's View: The National Park Service's Perplexing Director
Charles "Chuck" Sams came to the National Park Service's directorship as an outsider being counted on to improve employee morale, fight harassment in the agency, oversee how millions of Great American Outdoors Act dollars were being spent, and, as some believed, to be "a leader that NPS employees will admire and respect."
Traveler's View | Musings About The Parks And Related Topics
A snowy weekend with the prospect of two or three feet of fresh snow had me house-bound to a certain extent with plenty of time to wonder what the coming year will bring to the National Park System and related topics.
Traveler's View | Should International National Park Visitors Be Charged More?
Should international visitors be charged more than U.S. residents to enter the National Park System?
Traveler's View | When Did The National Park Service Lose Its Voice?
Getting answers from the leadership of the National Park Service to questions of public interest has become more and more difficult, as the agency increasingly takes a no-comment approach to challenging, uncomfortable, or accountability issues.
Traveler's View | Musings About the Parks, Fall 2023
With just a few weeks left before the prospect of a government shutdown rears its ugly head, there are some things that have crossed my mind lately.
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