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Crews At Gulf Islands National Seashore Continue To Take Precautions Against Oil

May 2nd - 16:21pm | Anonymous

I live in Pensacola and as a surfer and kayaker I spend a lot of time at the beach and in the water. They say the oil will start coming ashore here on Tuesday or Wednesday. Local and national resources are being deployed to try and minimize the effects of this potential disaster. The main thing now is to keep the oil out of the bays and estuaries.

May 2nd - 12:33pm | Kurt Repanshek

There are several ways you can help. Check out this site for details: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/kindness/post/2010/05/gulf-coast...

May 2nd - 12:29pm | Anonymous

Hi,

Join a Covered Wagon on the Santa Fe Trail near Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

May 2nd - 14:39pm | JimB

Rangertoo -

May 2nd - 11:42am | Fred Miller

How COOL is this?? I wish I could go. I truly envy those who will get to view this glimpse in to our frontier beginning, whether it's historically accurate or not.

May 2nd - 09:53am | Rangertoo

Are you sure? Conestoga wagons were used primarily in the east. Rarely west of the Mississippi. They were too heavy for the primitive trails and river crossings and required 4-6 horses to pull them. I would have thought that Bent's Old Fort would have seen the use of ordinary farm wagons (covered wgons).

May 2nd - 05:03am | MRC

One might add, that William Bent was married with Owl Woman, the daughter of an influential Cheyenne medicine man. They had four children, and when she died Bent married her sister and had another child with her. The Bent brothers won a lot of respect from the Native Americans way beyond the Cheyennes.

Fans of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Being Asked to Contribute Ideas to Lakeshore's Future

May 2nd - 13:37pm | Willson

I am from Michigan and I would visit if they put in a clothing optional beach. I have been to Haulover 5 or 6 times and there has always been more people on that small section of beach, than what one can see north and south, put together.

May 2nd - 13:30pm | Anonymous

I highly recommend that there be a clothing optional beach at the discussed location, and I strongly agree with every reason given. Do give it consideration.

May 1st - 12:59pm | thesolitudeone

An opportunity to bring in needed funds should not be ignored. A clothing optional beach sounds like a good idea.

May 1st - 12:57pm | thesolitudeone

A clothing optional beach is something that should be considered.

Apr 30th - 20:00pm | Matthew Kerwin

Yes, a clothing-optional beach is a great idea. Charge a little extra, if you want, though that wouldn't be necessary to make money. As the only official, public nude beach in the Midwest (not counting the one in Toronto), it would draw huge numbers. Haulover Beach in Florida (Miami) is a public beach run by the Dade County Parks.

My, What Big Ears You Have!

May 2nd - 11:31am | Random Walker

I have had many days of entertainment watching these critters in the canyons of Bandelier National Monument. At times it would seem they were aiming right at me, dropping cones and twigs from the high branches of a Ponderosa..

Is There Good News, Or Bad News, To Relate Concerning the Florida Panther?

May 2nd - 08:01am | Lisa

I have a great deal of respect for the Defenders of Wildlife, but I think in this situation, they've lowered their expectations to deal with the reality of the situation.

Gulf Islands National Seashore Still Oil-Free From Deepwater Horizon Disaster

May 2nd - 06:20am | Anonymous

Great reporting. Thank you.

Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Officials Concerned Over Indiana's Plans for Seawall

May 1st - 21:37pm | jay

superintendent dillon doesn't want ogden dunes to protect their homes but how much taxpayer money was spent on rock and other erosion control to protect the new pavillion at the portage lakefront park.

Long-Needed Rehabilitation Work Under Way at Glacier National Park's Many Glacier Hotel

May 1st - 19:47pm | Dianne Tudor

I worked at this hotel the four summers of my college years, 1966-1969 and it is my favorite place on the planet! I am so happy that it is finally being cared for via a huge renovation. Thank you to all who made it happen! I can't wait to visit and see the results!

Two Historic Orchards and Open Areas at Gettysburg National Military Park Being Replanted

May 1st - 19:13pm | CivilWarBuff

Fantastic! You can't lose when you help both the environment and a historical site. There are similar efforts at Antietam, with a replanting of the East Woods.

May 1st - 05:51am | Barky

Nice. I enjoy seeing historic sites restored to resemble the way they looked when the particular event happened. Helps visitors understand the situational context of that event.

Missed Portage Leads to Death At Big South Fork National River And Recreation Area

May 1st - 18:51pm | Nina

as we all hate that Tony is gone ---we also know he was doing what he loved. I met him kayaking many times as he help teach me some of his own knowledge and experience..

Reader Participation Day: Has Arizona's Approach To Controlling Illegal Immigrants Led You To Cancel a Grand Canyon Trip?

May 1st - 16:43pm | Sharlene

Whether or not I believe that the law is correct will not effect my decision as to whether or not I visit a National Park in AZ. The legislature passed the law, not the people. Yes, the people voted in the legislature but we all know that once someone is elected into power, we have little say in how they vote.

May 1st - 13:41pm | Kath

Meanwhile, because the administration doesn't adequately secure the border another police officer has been shot by illegal alien drug smugglers. You really can't blame Arizona for trying to protect her citizens and their jobs when the federal government is doing little or nothing.

Apr 30th - 15:54pm | y_p_w

Kath: Everyone I know who has gotten a new job recently has had to produce evidence of citizenship or legal residency. It is not draconian or fascist to do so. As for 'morality', it is immoral to hire illegals, to harbor illegals or to fail to enforce the law especially while American citizens are at 10% unemployment.

Apr 30th - 15:32pm | AnonymousD

I think this is a very poorly written law that will create more problems than it solves. Not only will it lead to racial profiling and harassment of US citizens with the wrong "look," it will overburden the various municipal police forces, many of which vehemently oppose the law. They now have added duties and yet there is no funding for extra manpower.

Apr 30th - 15:02pm | Random Walker

it is immoral to hire illegals, to harbor illegals or fail to enforce the law Nope, it is only against the law..

Apr 30th - 14:48pm | Kurt Repanshek

I believe the biggest concern isn't that one is asked to produce evidence of being in the U.S. legally, but rather that the state is ordering police to check for that evidence without probable cause but merely a "reasonable suspicion" that the individual might be in the country illegally. Can anyone define "reasonable suspicion"?

Apr 30th - 13:56pm | Kath

Everyone I know who has gotten a new job recently has had to produce evidence of citizenship or legal residency. It is not draconian or fascist to do so. As for 'morality', it is immoral to hire illegals, to harbor illegals or to fail to enforce the law especially while American citizens are at 10% unemployment.

Hiker Falls to Her Death In Zion National Park

May 1st - 16:27pm | Sharlene

It seems like so many people have been falling in Zion lately. I wonder which National Park has the most deadly falls...

Gulf Islands National Seashore Wildlife At Risk From Oil

May 1st - 14:01pm | R L Miller

If the river of oil kills plankton in the region, the impacts will reverberate upward along the food chain for years. It's painful watching this catastrophe unfold.

May 1st - 13:53pm | Barky

This is a tragedy, that's for sure. This is why we need adequate and ethical regulation of dangerous industries. Don't forget there was loss of life as well as environmental contamination (and, I'm sure, economic consequences). Proper and effective regulation is a requirement for a healthy, growing, democratic society. This case is living proof.

May 1st - 11:48am | acwolff

this is what happens when you'v got a inexperenced politican like obama, the right choice would have been to tell the oil companies to forget it, no off shore deep water wells. i seriously doubt he's learned , after this cools down you'l see halliburton, bp and the rest of the crooked criminals back drilling more deep water wells.

Gulf Islands National Seashore Bracing For Oil Spill

May 1st - 10:17am | Random Walker

This is not a "Oil Spill' !

Mules In Grand Canyon National Park: Should They Stay?

May 1st - 09:37am | Bonnie

What would the mules like to do?

Wintry Conditions Make Travel In Yellowstone National Park Interesting

May 1st - 09:34am | Lee Dalton

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May 1st - 09:14am | Lee Dalton

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May 1st - 09:00am | Lee Dalton

Okay. It apparently didn't work. Any computer gurus out there? Help?

May 1st - 08:58am | Lee Dalton

If this works, here are some photos of snow in Yosemite on the Badger Pass road and Chinquapin Ranger Station area. They were taken in the winter of 1968. [img101264688764542374490's Picasa Web Album - YOSEMITE snow]

Updated: Drilling Rig Disaster Could Send Oil Spill Into Gulf Islands National Seashore

May 1st - 08:36am | Kirby Adams

Drilling may be safer than it's ever been, but it isn't safe enough. This same thing that is being touted as extremely rare (a seafloor well spewing uncontrollably) happened in Australia nine months ago. There have been something like 40 blowouts in the Gulf Of Mexico over the last 20 years. Of course the mechanical fail-safe is going to fail sooner or later. And it will fail again.

Apr 30th - 19:25pm | anita

I totally agree with you...Thanks for letting us all know that we are all responsible...:)

More Controversy Tied to Religion and Wind Energy Likely To Surface Around the National Park System

May 1st - 04:32am | YennaA

Why is that we will you will find nevertheless numerous opposed to the idea, and that explains why for 10 years they are trying to put this wind farm up and have hit road blocks the whole way. Alternative power is a movement getting stronger by the day. We all have been trying to create a healthier safer environment for future generations and us.

Apr 30th - 20:02pm | Anonymous

Well put

Apr 30th - 13:49pm | Kath

Ultimately the greenest option is to just turn off the lights. (and the computer).

Apr 30th - 13:11pm | JimB

Kath notes part of the dilemma about new energy technology, and the probable legal challenges to the Cape Wind project.

Glacier National Park Taking Comments On Bear Management Plan Revisions

Apr 30th - 21:34pm | KayGeeJay

Sounds like a needless asault on the First Ammendment. If the area is closed, it is unlawful for the public to be there. If they are worried about their employees taking pictures - tell them to stop. They're employees! If they're ashamed of what they are doing.........

Apr 30th - 17:06pm | Kurt Repanshek

Here's an update from Glacier: Jack Potter, the park's resource chief, says the rules pertaining to photography only apply to a specific area that has been closed to the public for bear management purposes. If you're in an open area of the park, frontcountry or backcountry, there's no prohibition on taking photos of bears, rangers, or bears and rangers, he said.

What Do You Think About Sightseeing Tours Circling Mount Rainier National Park?

Apr 30th - 17:11pm | Chris Lunn

In my mid 70's I still hike a bit on short trails and always love he quiet and separation from the city road life. Years ago I hiked continually above Mazana in the Twisp area. The Military flew jets very low to the ground for training. Talk about a jolt and ruining your experience.

Bicycle Rentals Available at South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park

Apr 30th - 16:52pm | Tom Stoa

In addition to using a bike to tool around the South Rim Village area, I heartily endorse riding from the Village to Hermit's Rest, on the Hermit Road / West Rim Drive. The road was widened and re-paved in 2008, and is in great shape for cycling. It is 7 miles each way, from the gate at the west end of the village. It will be one of the most scenic bike rides of your life.

Apr 30th - 16:03pm | Anonymous

That sounds great except going into Az sounds terrifying to me after that last law they enacted.

New Tours Add to the Archaeological Richness of Mesa Verde National Park

Apr 30th - 14:13pm | RangerLady

When I worked at MEVE I hiked a couple times to Mug House. It is one of my favorites since it hasn't bene heavily impacted by visitation the way the 5 main ones have. I also love the fact that there isn't a paved trail running through the site.

Two Men Killed While Attempting To Raft Through "The Narrows" Of Zion National Park

Apr 30th - 14:09pm | RangerLady

I just read that these guys were filming this in order to get on Man vs Wild

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