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I'm Dale's older sister. Every so often I google his name and just read articles, watch videos about his case. My family and I were devasted to lose Dale in such a weird way. On June 9, 2023, we mark ten years since he went missing. I'm still not over it. He was my best bud in the world. You raised some interesting questions.

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Jun 23rd - 18:26pm | matteo manfredi

Thank you

Climate-Change Concerns Prompting New Review Of Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Program

Jun 20th - 12:49pm | T Hasbrouck

The reason Florida doesn't recognize Climate Change is because we have had a string of Govenors, starting with Rick Scott and now Ron DeSantis that don't believe in Climate Change. Then Govenor Scott wouldn't even let anyone who worked for the state use the words Climate Change in any document or speech. It's unfortunate that homeowners who can't afford to move elsewhere will be the most impa

Jun 19th - 16:19pm | Stan Chrzanowsk...

Sea Level Rise will drown the Everglades within my grandchildren's lifetimes and your present course of action cannot change that. Good luck.

Mules In Grand Canyon National Park: Should They Stay?

Jun 18th - 18:29pm | Eric Burgeson

I say "KEEP the MULES" after all, they do a superb job of transporting humans AND "cargo"; without pack mules, how would Phantom Ranch receive their supplies??? Probably too expensive to put in a helicopter, and a train of mules can haul more; so this one is a "no-brainer; nothing wrong with hikers walking around manure piles, goes with the territory; so please KEEP THEM; not only

4-Year-old Dies in Fall off South Rim of Grand Canyon

Jun 17th - 20:56pm | Julie ohlis

Truthfully, same thing happened to me. But, I survived. My father caught me. I was fast and I didn't like holding my mom's hand.

Funding Outlook For National Park Service Bleak At This Point

Jun 16th - 08:39am | ecbuck

Could you clarify that $125 million number. Surely the "annual fixed costs" for the NPS is higher than $125 million. Is that the projected increase in fixed costs? And if they are "fixed" why are they going up.

Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial - War and Peace and Two Memorable Phrases

Jun 15th - 15:52pm | Mark Mathys

Very Nice Article about the history of the Monument. There are some additionak facts and information at the Visotrs Bureau website https://www.visitputinbay.org

Traveler's View | Expanding The National Park System

Jun 7th - 15:38pm | A . Johnson

Unless and until the NPS can properly manage what it has already been assigned to manage, NO MORE nat'l parks or monuments! Sorry, but we need to eliminate the NPS, and start to dream it up again as a whole new agency. When compared to the ecosystems and natural resources that state, localities, and private landowners are managing, maybe the NPS should take notes from them.

Jun 6th - 13:20pm | Live in AZ

We live not too far from the Chiricahua National Monument in SE Arizona. It's a spectacular place with rhyolite hoodoos and gorgeous scenery. AZ senators are pushing to upgrade the status to a National Park, citing that it will be good for the nearby economy and good for tourism to AZ in general.

Jun 6th - 07:54am | ecbuck

I'm anxious to see what "gaps" have been identified and who identified them.

Debt Ceiling Agreement Stands To Be Damaging To National Park Service

Jun 6th - 12:30pm | Phil Selleck

More reason why the NPS should be an independent entity like the Smithsonian. The natural, cultural, and archeological features NPS protects, preserves and conserves are every bit as important as the artifacts Smithsonian curates, and as irreplaceable in many instances; reduction in funding only exposes those special places to deterioration, damage and destruction.

Wild Horses in a Georgia Wilderness? Cumberland Island National Seashore Completes Annual Count

Jun 5th - 13:14pm | D.R.

Your concerns are appreciated, but let's take a step back and look at the big picture. Horses were endemic to North America, though they apparantly disappeard from the fossil record before modern times. However, "Absence of evidense is not evidence of absence."

Jun 5th - 11:41am | D.R.

Only recently, and mostly in the USA is a love of horses considered a 'girly' thing. Before the 1970's, toy horses were mostly sold for boys. Interestig, isn't it?

Interior Officials Urged To Support NPS Rule On Hunting And Trapping In Alaskan Preserves

Jun 4th - 20:09pm | C Whitman

Indigenous Alaskans have a sovereign right to exist "on lands under the stewardship of the National Park Service" without constantly being diminished, threatened, and dictated to by the dominant settler culture and its attempt to control animals. The sentiments expressed in the supportive comments described here should be reason enough to abandon this process. It's time to stop judging Native

Jun 4th - 19:35pm | Diane Armstrong

I just don't think it's right for the hunters to go off and shoot mother bears and cubs during denning season, and wolves and.swimmimg Caribou. If mankind is to kill those people. They will become a brink of extinction. I believe it is a inhumane and cruel practice. for hunters to shoot mother bears and cubs in dens. That goes along with the wolves and swimming Caribou. .

Jun 4th - 01:52am | Mike B.

Did subsistence hunters shoot bears over a pile of donuts? I don't think so. The Trump era changes were shameful.

Jun 3rd - 23:02pm | Edward Hailstone

Hunting swimming Caribou Llows a hunter to examine and choose their meats, brain shot, instant death, no pain, no wasted meat, no wounded, c lean atvthe rivers edge. No c alves separated from their cow, no Cows taken. Tradional and viable as a hunting method to get enough food in Gall for winter in the Arctic

Jun 3rd - 22:09pm | Native Alaskan ...

Is it really unethical for indigenous subsistence hunters to take swimming caribou when they have been doing so for thousands of years? I think not as this method of feeding your family is ethical and humane especially when considering how most livestock is killed. Lets be clear, subsistence hunters are not hunting for sport: They hunt for food. Will government land managers get in the way

Bison Slaughter In Yellowstone National Park Draws Protest Against Park Service

Jun 3rd - 00:56am | Ken Harrell

Until recently, I mistakingly believed that our tax funded National Park system protected wild life, but I am now greatly disappointed to hear that Yellowstone National Park officials participate in the slaughter of OUR American bison. Our National Park system is there to preserve, not destroy, the land and creatures that live on it.

Hawaii Man Who Helped Yellowstone Calf Pays $1,000+ In Fines And Fees

Jun 1st - 11:17am | A . Johnson

I just do not understand the "thinking" of the people who do such things in our national parks. Whether it's the recent selfiies with bison and petting them at Yellowstone, what is behind this the-warnings-do-not-apply-to-me attitude? help!

National Park Service Struggles With Feral Horses

May 31st - 23:24pm | Cary Carlson

The NPS tried to remove horses, according to Carol Ruckdeshel, in her book, but met with great political opposition. Because of the tourism money. The tourists would still come, just stop advertising "wild" horses as the big draw. Many parks put the resource first. Whole areas may be closed seasonally due to sensitive wildlife needs such as nesting. Feral hogs are literally fenced out of P

May 31st - 06:52am | MaureenB

Everything is always about politics and money. You have a perfectly almost secluded beautiful island with interesting history and wildlife that is actually meant to be there and yet you can't find ethical ways to keep public interest other than off the backs or should I say souls of these horses?

Take A Virtual Tour Of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park With This Video

May 31st - 11:08am | miguel

it was very cool

Harry A. Butowsky, Long-Tenured National Park Historian, Gone At 78

May 30th - 20:59pm | CJDillon

I remember stopping by his desk a number of times when I worked in Washington and there was always a stack of books piled nearby, almost as tall as me, waiting to be converted to the eLibrary.

May 29th - 14:19pm | RD Payne

Harry's side gig was teaching World War II history at George Mason University (his favorite course), along with World War I history and Western Civilization (his least favorite; by the time he got to lecturing about Pliny the Elder he had pretty much weeded out from the class those who genuinely had zero interest in World history -- come on, who wouldn't be interested in learning about a guy wh

May 29th - 12:37pm | RD Payne

Harry played a key role in helping to establish Brown v. Board of Education NHS (now NHP) in 1992. That path started with his authoring of The U.S. Constitution: A National Historic Landmark Theme Study (1986). As Harry wrote in a special edition of CRM (Vol. 19 No. 2) in 1996:

May 29th - 10:07am | RD Payne

The NPS History eLibrary was the National Park Service's first electronic library, with its first document uploaded in December 1999: The Origin and Evolution of the National Military Park Idea by Ronald F. Lee (1973) followed by The United States Park Police: A History by Barry Mackintosh (1989) and A Brief History of the National Park Service by James F.

National Park Service Continues To Score Low In Best Places To Work Survey

May 27th - 10:40am | Bobby Dupea

Same story every year. Things won't be getting better any time soon. From what I am seeing, it has never been easier to get a permanent job in the NPS, but be prepared to take a vow of poverty. The residents of gateway communities have figured out that it is more lucrative to rent to tourists than to rangers.

Abraham Lincoln's Overcoat Returns to Public Display at Ford's Theatre

May 26th - 08:08am | [email protected]

Thanks !

May 25th - 10:27am | Vanessa Dargain

Big thanks , compliments and many blessings to the hand quilter of the eagle on president Lincoln's great coat . One country one destiny is still the rule in 21st America . Thanks for posting the article .

Debt Ceiling Battle Could Be Crippling For National Park Service, National Parks

May 24th - 06:31am | Jim R, PA MO

The GOP active in office, in my opinion, have a responsibility to do whatever they can to reduce the unnecessary costs and spending for all US. Democrats supporting raising the debt ceiling without serious spending cuts are out of touch on the impact the US debt $31trillion has on our country. This excessive spending needs to get under control toward a balanced budget.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Bookstores Carrying New Children’s Title To Help Protect Wildlife

May 23rd - 15:53pm | DP

Adults need to read the book. We've seen too many "adults" try to get too close to bears and elk with bad results. Keep your distance folks, the wildlife was here before humans.

Lake Powell Rising About A Foot A Day

May 21st - 22:05pm | Jacquelin Hancock

Fill Lake Powell!!!

Nearly 40 Years After Paul Fugate Disappeared, Effort Renewed To Find Missing Ranger

May 21st - 17:02pm | Old Wilderness ...

I talked with Paul for over an hour a couple weeks before he disapeared. He provided me with a lot of enviro info to help in making the case for Wilderness Designation for the area designated and the North end near the Monument. Very helpful. I had been harrassed by a member of a then notorious family in the area.

The Western Snowy Plover: A Tiny Shorebird On A Long Journey

May 19th - 11:25am | Ken Bouley

According to NPS, "Common ravens are the primary predators of nests and hatchling snowy plovers at Point Reyes National Seashore." The ranches in Point Reyes attract unnatural concentrations of ravens. I am glad the article mentions that. What is not mentioned is that NPS is currently being sued over the wildly unpopular and unscientific plan to continue ranching in Point Reyes.

May 17th - 04:16am | Wendy Poinsot

So glad to read this story and know that park efforts are paying off with reproductive success.

Gone and Mostly Forgotten: 26 Abolished National Parks

May 19th - 10:14am | bjornironforged

I hear there was a National Park somewhere in West Tennessee that was closed permanently. The government closed it and deleted its prior existence (for certain reasons to not be disclosed here). I'd like to know if anyone has any info on this? contact me via email at [email protected]

Another Pot Farm In Death Valley National Park Cleaned Up

May 18th - 13:58pm | Tracy L Stout Powers

Why do people consistently have to ruin beautiful national parks?

Unresolved Search-and-Rescue Cases Are Scattered Throughout the National Parks

May 17th - 13:51pm | Fred J Fagergren

Thank you again for an excellent article and for a reminder of both the tragedy of lost souls and the significant effort made by NPS Park Rangers and others in trying find every person or child that is lost in the wonderful yet wild places found in the National Park System. Each Park Ranger will never forget those who were found and especially those who were not.

Yellowstone National Park Wolves And Elk Near Equilibrium, According To Biologist

May 16th - 13:05pm | Tony Stark

Good stuff

Pipe Sales To End At Pipestone National Monument Visitor Center

May 15th - 10:05am | Darryl

Mine is sacred to me . I have Native Americans in my bloodline and my pipe is my conduit to them and the rest of my family that has left this earth ahead of me .

Recovering From Winter Will Delay Some Access At Sequoia, Kings Canyon National Parks

May 15th - 09:33am | Tristan

This is helpful for we have reservations at the Buckey Tree Lodge, right there on 198, it makes no sense to keep them during our reservation of June 15-20 if we can't access 198 to go up into the park, having to take 180 instead...

May 14th - 17:35pm | RR

y_p_w, Sadly, most comments are from the same few people who just want to air political greivances.

May 13th - 01:29am | y_p_w

No real message but I noticed that commenting was available for this article and just wanted to say hi since that seems to be a rare thing these days on NPT.

Road Work Will Temporarily Close Access To Points In Dinosaur National Monument

May 14th - 13:43pm | Ron Litton

Access will still be available to many sites along the road with temporary restrictions during actual construction phases. The park is still open... including the principal Dinosaur Quarry Visitor Center and Exhibit Hall on the Utah side of the park, where all of the dinosaur fossils are found.

Why You Should Not Store Food in Your Car at Great Smoky Mountains National Park

May 14th - 10:03am | Maples Oak Pinetree

My dad was a ranger and we spent a lot time in the GSMNP when he was off duty as well. He kept his ranger hat in the car at all times and when came upon a bear that needed to be run off, he would just hold the hat behind his back, walk up to the bear and then put the hat on.

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