budgets in Yellowstone are down
CORPORATE CONTROL OF PUBLIC SPACES
Elk Play Golf In Estes Park
THIS IS WHAT AMERICANS VOTED FOR
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The Summer always brings forth news about the National Parks: Here are the most read stories this week.
-- Yesterday's Citizen Times, from Ashevillele, North Carolina, ran an interesting article about the changes to the Interior Department since 2001. Although general in nature the article accurately describes the situation in Yellowstone National Park.
-- The article, written by a retired National Park Ranger, who was also an assistant park superintendent, contends that threats to the very existence of the NPS exist. It suggests that the NPS is being turned over to corporate puppets. As examples the article cites the following:
* NPS sets policy reducing ability to have air pollution controls in National Parks.
* NPS overrides two decades of scientific study to allow the reintroduction of snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park.
* NPS proposed policy that would permit advertising in National Parks.
* NPS began outsourcing of public protection jobs (lifeguards) at seashores.
* NPS rewrote policies and directives that once put protection of resources first, so that protection and use would be equal. This paved the way for more "wreckreational" use by motorized vehicles.
* The [current] administration's leadership introduced legislation to sell off 10 national park areas.
-- It further contends that:
* "The administration has gutted the Clean Water Act, has crippled laws that were designed to reduce air pollution, and is moving rapidly toward dire changes in the Endangered Species Act that destroy its effectiveness. The administration is pushing current efforts to open up the wilderness Arctic Refuge to oil interests."
-- The author of the article is a member of the newly minted, The Coalition of National Park Service Retirees, and deserves a complete hearing.
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-- Also, in another headline, the NPS is having an elk problem in more places than just Yellowstone National Park. The Elk in Rocky Mountain National Park Have Invaded Estes Park, Colorado and are now endangering the lives of the citizens there. The city manager wants his elk, and his golf course. This is about the same situation as obtains in Yellowstone at Mammoth, and in Gardiner.
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-- We anticipate more headlines along these lines as the election cycle brings us closer to voting. Keep your dial set here.
