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Being that folks are resorting to social media on this topic, I will no longer post here unless there is a need for a reply. This is most likely my final post for this site. Here are solid documented facts. The Park is mandated to control excessive deer numbers and can do so at their discretion, without having to info the public every time they do.

Private Equity Firm Takes Majority Interest In Ortega National Parks

Nov 10th - 11:20am | John Inman

The hotel once resort at Illinois beach state park has been severely reduced under Ortega parks. $70 Million of shoreline protection and they still have to my knowledge no plans to rebuild the gym so many local members enjoyed for many decades. No doubt to make room for more one hand washed the other corporate events.

Grizzly 399 Was A Bear For The Ages

Nov 9th - 10:01am | The story on Be...

The story on Bear 399 was wonderfully written. The authors portrayed why visitors to the Nationakl parks must be so very careful while driving, and why they must always remember that they are visitors in the homes of the natural residents of the park, the animals.

On A Collision Course: National Parks, Project ‘25, And President Trump

Nov 9th - 08:01am | Michael Kellett

There is ample evidence that there is broad, bipartisan support for national parks. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/08/12/americans-see-many-fe...

Nov 9th - 07:22am | Michael Kellett

Dear Loui: I guess Axios has suddenly become a Democratic Party outlet and Steve Bannon and other MAGA influencers are lying when the say that Project 2025 is the Trump agenda. https://www.axios.com/2024/11/07/trump-project-2025-second-term-agenda

Nov 7th - 19:29pm | Public Land Owner

Thanks for your efforts Kurt. Having read the section on Dept Of Interior in project 2025 and having listened to interviews with it's author I too have concerns. As a patriot I have high expectations of our soil, water, wildlife, wildlands and those who manage them. I have little reason to believe that my expectations are shared by anyone in that administration.

Nov 7th - 18:42pm | A. Johnson

I too appreciite your views, your willingness to allow differing perspectives, and your choice of stories to highlight. Your points on the lack of Congressional funding for nat'l parks are always good retorts to my broad brushes.

Nov 7th - 16:50pm | Kurt Repanshek

I appreciate your perspective and your optimism, anonymous (though why anonymous?). For the park’s sake, let’s hope he doesn’t.

Nov 7th - 16:12pm | Anonymous

KR: "...that's not fearmongering. It's simply factual...." Actually it IS fearmongering, because you have no (as in none, 0) evidence or a "fact" that the president-elect has any plans to implement any part of Project 2025. The fact is just the opposite: the president-elect has clearly and frequently disavowed any desire to use Project 2025.

Nov 7th - 14:09pm | john928gt

Sorry, but seeing more of this doom and gloom speculation since Trump was elected. What is the goal of this article?

Nov 7th - 13:33pm | Lee Dalton

drumpf's election is easily the stupidest thing Americans have done since . . . . since . . . . darn near forever.

Nov 7th - 12:28pm | Kurt Repanshek

Loui, if we're not aware of the issues confronting the national parks and the National Park Service, neither the parks nor the agency can be properly managed and endure as they were envisioned to endure.

Nov 7th - 12:22pm | Loui

The value of the Traveler is in its unique reportage of events and policy matters relating to the National Park Service. Project 2025 is a wish list from some DC think tank, unaffiliated to the Trump Administration and Campaign. The campaign went to some lengths to distance itself from this document, as noted. But in light of the DNC having recently morphed it into a bludgeon against their o

Troubled Waters: Cruise Ship Controversy Hangs Over Acadia's Gateway

Nov 5th - 15:43pm | PanJH

We have spent summers just outside of Bar Harbor for many years. we used to come into town prety much every afternoon/ evening. However, the high volume of cruise ship passengers has negatively impacted the town and island and we check the cruise ship schedule now and do not come into town when the large ships are there.

Nov 4th - 14:24pm | Bill Leeper

We visited with our 5th wheel last fall and spent about 2 weeks in the area. On the days we went during the day the crowds were thick in Bar Harbor. We had the chance in other parts of the state to visit with locals and they almost all had a negative view on the cruise ships.

Wyoming Backs Utah’s Quest To Seize BLM Land, May Want Other Fed Property

Oct 31st - 05:04am | Public Land Owner

What' is also "clear", and "no surprise", is that of the public land we have already given Utah for the purpose of utilizing to fund schools has been grossly mismanaged. Utah has already divulged of approximately 50% of tha land and funneled the majority of the proceeds away from schools and the public good. It's public expense for private gains no matter how the lthey spin it.

Oct 30th - 15:38pm | Rick B.

No surprise that the majority of the political types that want to exploit the land have "R" next to their name. Watch the Presidential election to see if this behavior is encouraged or fades into obscurity.

Oct 30th - 12:47pm | A. Johnson

The 1894 WEnablign Act salso stated:

Oct 30th - 10:56am | Anonymous

Utah Statehood Enabling Act of 1894 states,

Oct 30th - 09:33am | A. Johnson

It was NEVER the plan that all this federal land would remain in the hands of the federal gov't. Never. Like all other states created from federally owned land (after the first 14 states), the federal gov't intended to sell the land so that it would be in private hands for private development. Just look at MI, OH, IN, IL--the only federal lands are thiose that the federal gov't "reserved" fo

Oct 29th - 16:06pm | elk54

I agree . These belong to all citizens of the country not just the individual states. That was/is the whole idea of what PUBLIC lands are supposed to be about. This is all about greed.

Oct 29th - 11:07am | Public Land Owner

The federal gov does not own that land, we do. We pay our federal gov to manage our shared lands, and not one single acre should be gifted to utah for privitization. That land, our land, is our birth right and National heritage.

Oct 28th - 12:57pm | A. Johnson

The use of Wyofile stories is a benefit to NPT readers. Thank you for allowing them to post here.

Oct 28th - 12:55pm | A. Johnson

Maybe these states should declare themselves to be "tribes", demand "tribal sovereignty", and have the DOI (NPS, BLM) fall over backwards to "co-manage " federal properties with them? Just an idea.

Oct 28th - 12:24pm | Loui

I read this as a prepatory cutoff against future abuses of the the Antiquities Act.

Saving The `Purely American’ Monterey Furniture of Oregon Caves

Oct 29th - 15:59pm | elk54

I have stayed at the Cave a couple of different times... decades apart... The first time was in the mid 1970's & there were CABINS located on the area above the cave site. They were the least expensive option &, if memory serves correctly, I believe there was a separate shower building but you had a sink in the room... &I think the toilets were in another building.

Photography In The National Parks: Capturing Sunrise At Glacier National Park

Oct 29th - 13:09pm | Gary E. Davis

Thanks for the wonderful encouragement to get up early and catch that warm, honey-hued mountain light to share with all those sleepyheads who missed the show. Also, thanks for all the tips on where to stand to find that light.

Oct 29th - 12:28pm | J.T.

Great instructions, directions, and sunrise photos! Thanks for all the time you spent getting these seasonal shots.

Arches National Park Seeks Public Input Regarding A New Visitor Access Plan

Oct 29th - 12:47pm | Jim S.

Time entry works well if you plan ahead. Please don't criticize it withour a better solution to over crowding!

Cima Road In Mojave National Preserve To Reopen November 6

Oct 29th - 12:21pm | Kurt Repanshek

Duly noted and corrected. Many thanks.

Oct 29th - 12:12pm | Gila Monster

Cima Road! Not Clima. :)

Legislation For Rescue, Rehabilitation, Release Of Sea Turtles Languishing

Oct 28th - 13:10pm | A. Johnson

So, if one reads the RRRR paper from 2016 posted by Anonymous, we still have no plan to evaluate the effectiveness of these rehab and rel;ease progrsams, yet we're supposed to fund more of the same programs that have not yet be shown to be effective in saving or re-populating sea turtles and cannot be shown to be effective because there's no requirement to track the turtles?

Following The Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath

Oct 28th - 09:03am | Anonymous

Canal Fulton, Coshocton, both in Ohio, offer Canalboat rides.

From Confederate general to Cherokee heritage: Why returning the name Kuwohi to the Great Smoky Mountains matters

Oct 27th - 11:44am | A. Johnson

So. we're suppose to ignore the fact that many, if not most, Eastern Band Cherokees fought WITH or otherwise supported the Confederacy? Shall we alo consuider how the Five Civilized tribes supported the Confederacy? Is this author aware of Stand Watie, a Cherokee and the last Confederate general to have surrendered? Does place naming matter?

New 'Selfie Control' Instagram Filter Tells Tourists When They're Way Too Close To Big Animals

Oct 26th - 17:51pm | #nofollowersneeded

While this article is much appreciated, an even better option is to simply delete the app and practice being trul present in the real world

Grizzly Bear 399 Killed In Vehicle Collision In Wyoming

Oct 26th - 15:35pm | Anonymous

too many humans and not enough bears.. Bless her for the joy she gave us all.

Oct 24th - 19:32pm | MTgirl

Seriously? That is a ridiculous statement.

Oct 24th - 16:31pm | DJB

Perhaps, then, the park should be epanded. We don't have enough grizzleys overall, but we do have an extreme overpopualtion of humans planet-wide.

Oct 24th - 10:15am | Anonymous

Absolutley correct!

Oct 23rd - 19:04pm | Dee K

Absolutely agree

Concerns Raised Over National Park Service's "Tribal Co-Stewardship Playbook"

Oct 25th - 15:44pm | JC

Your supposition that oral histories are inaccurate flies in the face of anthropological studies that have shown that traditions in the PNW have accurately retold stories of volcanic activity that took place thousands of years ago such as at Crater Lake NP, and those in the southwest that have been able to recall accurately places not inhabited by those cultures for hundreds of years, contribut

Oct 24th - 16:43pm | A. Johnson

I have never seen Indigenous perspectives be incorporated in a way that obscures the facts of a park, only to inhance it. Odd that you make this statement right after mentioning the inclusion of NA perspectives at White Sands NP and the tracks there.

Oct 24th - 16:27pm | A. Johnson

Amen Loui, amen. The effort to spin "tribal identity" as something other than outright racism is so sad, and so unAmerican. It's as if 200 years of racism and segregation means nothing when you have "good intentions".

DOJ: Judge Should Deny Emergency Food And Water For Cumberland Island Horses

Oct 25th - 01:32am | Anonymous

When are people going to wake up? The horses can be easily removed and placed in a healthier environment. The only loss will be that environmentally obtuse tourists will complain and go somewhere else. So be it.

The Challenges Of Recreation.gov

Oct 24th - 09:06am | Anonymous

I have been trying for two weekw to make a rreservation at Needles Campground with no luck. I clikc on Add to Cart at 1 second before the sites open and have never gotten a reservation. What is wrong with this website!

Padre Island National Seashore Proposing Removal Of Swine And Exotic Antelope

Oct 23rd - 19:27pm | TX Bowhunter

Laguna Atascosa and Lower Rio Grande Valley NWR offer lottery hunts to hunt these pigs and Antelope. There are archery and firearm hunts. Hundred of Texas apply for a chance to do this. Most don't get drawn. Padre should offer a similar program.

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