The National Park Service decided Thursday that it will raise fees at 117 national park sites, but the increases are quite modest compared to the previous proposal.
Facing a more than $11 billion backlog in the upkeep of national parks, Interior Secr…
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Hey, how about we helicopter grizzly bears into this remote National Park?
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Ancient groves of Douglas fir trees still stand in North Cascades National Park. The little-visited park — it receives less than one percent of the annual visitation of Yellowstone — can resemble the misty, prehistoric woods before the Pacific Northwest was settled. Wolverines, cougars, moose, and hundreds of other species of animals dwell here, living among ponds and beneath towering, pinnacled mountains.
But although these woodlands in Washington State were also once rich in grizzly bears, the park hasn’t confirmed spotting any in years. After being thoroughly hunted, there may be none left. Read more…
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View More Hey, how about we helicopter grizzly bears into this remote National Park?National Park Service advisory board members resign in protest
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…
View More National Park Service advisory board members resign in protestTrump shrank 2 national monuments by nearly 2 million acres. He can’t do that to Yellowstone.
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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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