Nearly all the members of the U.S. National Park Service advisory board announced their sudden resignations on Monday night, in protest of what they say has been a lack of engagement by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke during the past year. In a resigna…
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Starbucks isn’t the only huge food corporation in Yosemite
Sorry, nature lovers. You’re kidding yourselves if you think your national park dining experiences are corporation-free.
On Jan. 4, the Yosemite Valley Lodge’s plan to install a Starbucks coffee kiosk in a new food court led to some online back…
Trump shrank 2 national monuments by nearly 2 million acres. He can’t do that to Yellowstone.
President Trump may have just dramatically slashed the size of two national monuments in Utah, but America’s 59 national parks — as well as over 270 other national park sites — cannot be unilaterally downsized by Trump or any other president.
The legal reason is simple and inarguable:
“National parks can only be established by Congress, and everyone agrees they can only be undone, if at all, by Congress,” Holly Doremus, a natural resources law expert at University of California, Berkeley, told Mashable in an email.
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