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she was removed from her position. The allegations would have been made by someone who apparently has a right not to be outed as part of that process-- and outing the allegations might very well out that person. We can argue about whether that's fair given the result but whatever. It is news that this very public removal has now been reversed.

Feb 7th - 20:13pm | Bill Baehr

Investigation into undisclosed allegations found no wrong doing? Why publish this? If we don't know the allegations, what difference does it make?

Feb 7th - 19:56pm | billie-o

@anotherparky while not condoning or brushing aside the things you witnessed, it is a societal problem. having working in various fields for the government and in the private sector, its everywhere, unfortunately.

Feb 7th - 19:21pm | AnotherParky

It's so much worse than you think. This kind of problem is all over the parks. I worked at Bryce Canyon a couple of years ago and several managers in their 40's and 50's where actively pursuing and dating their own direct employees, most of whom where around 20 years old. This was a problem that went from the top down, it was really disgusting. They even had two rapes that year, one which l

Feb 7th - 18:46pm | Barbara Dorn

i don't know her but I was suspicious as soon as I heard she was accused. People are so threatened by powerful women that they try to do anything to bring them down. Great job with investigation!

Feb 7th - 15:45pm | Believer

yes! Finally some GOOD NEWS!

Heavy Snows Damage Buildings In Yosemite National Park

Feb 9th - 14:53pm | Mike Painter

Half Dome Village, formerly known as Camp Curry ...

Wyoming Couple Pleads Guilty To Taking Wolf Inside Grand Teton National Park

Feb 8th - 23:11pm | Mike B.

They got off too easy.

Feb 7th - 17:21pm | Vanualevu

We live in Teton County, ID right near where this occurred. We're new here and I can say with ten thousand percent certainty confirm that more rogue dometic dogs running around here kill more farm animals than any one wolf could ever hope to.

Two Decades Exploring America’s National Park Lodges

Feb 8th - 22:52pm | Lynda Damrill

What excellent writng and how generous of you to share decades of the adventures the two of you have had. Your latest book also contains stunning pictures. I encourage readers to follow your web site and your book to flill in the details of these amazing journeys.

Illegal Camping In Death Valley National Park, Anonymous Ranger Fears For Yosemite

Feb 8th - 12:23pm | Haily Baldwin

All Pelosi had to do was give the President 5.7 Million dollars (0.4% of GDP) for proper border security barriers, this was a Democratic shutdown since Trump tried pretty hard to work with them, those darn demoncrats just wanted to travel and plays games with our furloughed workers paychecks, they could care less about the American people as long as they didn't let Trump get any kind of win, af

National Park Service Awards Over $1.5 Million To Protect Battlefield Sites

Feb 8th - 09:10am | Anonymous

You missed an opportunity to plug legislation to reauthorize the LWCF. It expired at the end of the last fiscal year. Since I'm assuming no appropriations where made for FY 2019 due to the LWCF expiring, I have questions. Was the money for these grants left over from FY 2018 or earlier appropriations for this purpose? Or was this money left over from funds designated for land acquisition

Wolf Moved Last Fall To Isle Royale National Park Heads For Home

Feb 7th - 18:43pm | Anonymous

Yet another harbinger of how this wasteful, ill-considered public relations campaign of a reintroduction attempt is doomed to fail absent constant annual relocation efforts lasting either >forever<, or >until wiser heads prevail<, whichever happens first. Save the taxpayers money and relocate Rolf to a retirement home instead of wolves to Isle Royale.

Feb 6th - 21:39pm | y_p_w

ecbuck: Yes really y_p_w. A million years from now (and perhaps far shorter) you will never know we were here.

Feb 6th - 21:27pm | ecbuck

Yes really y_p_w. A million years from now (and perhaps far shorter) you will never know we were here.

Feb 6th - 20:18pm | y_p_w

ecbuck: Always have been, always will be. Which is why it is nothing but arrogance to think that man will have a lasting effect - good or bad - on this earth. It will survive in a natural state long beyond when we are gone.

Feb 6th - 19:26pm | ecbuck

The best laid plans of mice and men are thwarted by Ma Nature. Always have been, always will be. Which is why it is nothing but arrogance to think that man will have a lasting effect - good or bad - on this earth. It will survive in a natural state long beyond when we are gone.

Feb 6th - 17:43pm | Murray Aronson

Hahaha. The wolf took advantage of the ice bridge. The best laid plans of mice and men are thwarted by Ma Nature.

UPDATED | Damage Assessments, Cleanup, And Hiring Confront National Park Staff

Feb 7th - 09:50am | Toby Gramm

Am I the only one that has read the FLREA act? This fund is specifically FOR building and MAINTAINING visitor facilities.... The bathrooms and trash services should have NEVER stopped in parks that collect Fees. Also NOTHING prevented these parks from collecting fees during the shutdown! The contenency plan told parks to STAFF the guard gates! "SS6807. Expenditures

Panel To Discuss Smokies 900-Miler Trail Challenge

Feb 6th - 19:51pm | Owen Hoffman

Too bad Liz Etnier is not a panelist. She wrote the book on hiking all the 900 miles of trail in the Great Smoky Mountains. She is a retired environmental and health scientist, formerly employed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN. Her husband, Dr. David Etnier, is the ichtyologist who discovered the Tennessee snail darter.

Nation's Largest Memorial To WW2 Vets Rededicated At Redwood National And State Parks

Feb 6th - 14:22pm | Linda Utz

in researching my family history I have found out that a relative, killed in WWII , has had a redwood dedicated, in his name. After reading the information above, I am thinking that there must be a book or some listing of names of these men, who were killed. I am very interested in knowing about that. Thank you.

Drugs, Not Bear Attack, Killed Man At Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Feb 6th - 08:35am | ecbuck

It might be self enlightening for some of you to go back and read your original comments on this story: https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2018/09/rangers-kill-black-bear-mi...

Feb 6th - 07:52am | Peter Dorsa

The fact that they had a hard time tracking the bear,even with a collar, should have been there first clue this bear was not aggressive but was trying to evade them. And to take so many trys to as they say "destroy" the bear. Killing is killing destroy is semantics, senseless loss of life, the bears not the dirt bag ginseng poacher! He should have used some of the ginseng to get off meth!

Feb 6th - 06:04am | Anonymous

So the best died for nothing but being a bear. Some of us are so quick to judge one another (animals inc.) That bear was in his habitat where he should be allowed to do what bears do and because some tweeter died , doing something illegal , its the bears fault ? Smh

Feb 5th - 14:23pm | Kevin Harlan

This bear did nothing wrong. The story said the bear had acorn meat inside not human flesh. The bear was innocent, it was another meth head that caused it. Until of course a man comes along that obviously can't aim, and injures the bear.. and takes days to put it out of his misery. Stupid people!!

Feb 5th - 14:18pm | Kevin Harlan

The story said this bear was full on acorn meant. There wasn't any human flesh in it. The poor bear was just living it's life until a meth head overdosed! The bear was innocen!

Feb 5th - 12:06pm | Random Reader

His friend, Joshua David Morgan did inorm the authorities, resulting in the search, and is now dead.

Feb 5th - 10:27am | Tennessee Hiker

i believe there was someone with the deceased and was hunting ginseng in the park also. They become separated and the ither man did not notify authorities for several days that his part was missing. the Other man supposedly admitted to hunting ginseng in the park. My question is "has this man been prosecuted" for his crime? If not, he should be.

Feb 5th - 10:23am | John Bowder

Tomp2 has very good points, but they could have waited for the autopsy on the dead man. That gave all the answers they needed. The bear wasn't a threat to anyone at the time. I agree it was a judgement call, but he should have waited for that autopsy report.

Feb 4th - 21:11pm | tomp2

Carl--

Rangers Kill Black Bear That Might Have Killed Man Poaching Ginseng In Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Feb 5th - 21:29pm | troy

Article needs to be corrected, he was a ginseng poached and the chinese are buying up all they can for $1000 a pound or more and it's being poached to the point of extinction.

The Orphans’ Project: Wildlife Rescue In Kenya

Feb 5th - 16:40pm | Barbara McLean

Really a great article that includes so much information about what this amazing organization does and ways we can all help these young elephants who have had so much trauma in their young lives. So many behind the scenes helping out as well. I'm with you, Barbara..... I'm hooked too and hope to return for my second visit later this year!

Shutdown In The Parks: Olympic National Park

Feb 5th - 14:07pm | Rangerskip

The photo of Ruby Beach through the trees was magnificent! It brought back memories of my childhood camping in the park back in the 1960's.

Elephant Seals Take Over New Beach In Point Reyes National Seashore

Feb 5th - 14:00pm | Rangerskip

Hmm...wondering if the Elephant Seals have taken over Drake's Beach or Limantour Spit. Either way, they should provide another prey source for the Great White Sharks which frequent that area. I lived there back in the 1970's before Elephant Seals discovered the area and the Great Whites fed primarily on sea lions and harbor seals.

Feb 5th - 11:22am | Dianne Milliard

Hooray for the seals! I visited Drake's Beach a couple of years ago and there was an elephant seal pup on the beach. It looked like a log! Great camouflage1 I photographed it from a safe distance and continued on my walk. When I returned, 2 tourists were harassing the poor thing, standing right over it. It made me so angry. I sympathize with the seals.

Fight Over Yosemite National Park Iconic Names Will Drag On Deep Into 2019

Feb 5th - 09:41am | William Lukens

Outrageous for the concessionaire to claim the names.

Teaching Closed Parks In Texas

Feb 5th - 06:50am | Bob Pahre

Thanks, Ranger Carol! I've been impressed with the sites at the El Paso and Santa Fe ends of the trail, and need to visit those in between.

National Park Service Employees Return To Find Shorted Paychecks

Feb 4th - 23:12pm | Rick B.

Some career seasonal status employees still waiting for the first check of any kind or amount.

Shrimp Trawler Breaks Up, Washes Ashore At Cape Hatteras National Seashore

Feb 4th - 21:25pm | tomp2

That is an impressive debris field for a shrimp trawler. I expected a couple of large pieces and then a bunch of little stuff, but that looks to be board by board, plastic piece by plastic piece. Given the high high tides for the next days or 2 from the new moon, that's going to be a real mess to clean up before it disperses far up & down the beach.

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