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Colorado's 'Reopening' Brings Calls For Cautious Return To Estes Park, Rocky Mountain National Park

With Colorado now entering a scaled-down phase of its coronavirus response, transitioning from “Stay at Home” to “Safer at Home,” Estes Park’s Chamber of Commerce has launched a full-court press to provide its members with consistent information to ensure a safe, yet limited, reopening of local lodging and curbside retail service.

National Park Service Beginning To Plan For Reopening Parks

While more than 52,000 Americans have died from coronavirus, and the global death toll has passed 200,000, political and economic pressures are mounting for a return to pre-coronavirus economic activity. While the National Park Service is beginning the planning to reopen parks that have been closed by the pandemic, there's no firm timeline yet for when those openings will occur.

Caneel Bay Resort: Unceasing Efforts To Undo Laurance Rockefeller's Wishes

On the sun- and surf-splashed north shore of Virgin Islands National Park, the operators of the Caneel Bay Resort had a handsome operation. Nightly rates quickly surged past $600 for a room in paradise, they were surrounded by a national park, and they owed the National Park Service nothing for that privilege.

Burnett Oil Co. Dismisses Corps of Engineers' Charges As Orchestrated Falderal

In a biting response to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' charges that his company's oil exploration in Big Cypress National Preserve was damaging the landscape, Burnett Oil Co. President Charles Nagel said the Corps' compliance chief in Florida was terribly misinformed and seemed to be being fed misinformation by opponents.