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• Mexican marijuana cartels sully US forests, parks

  PORTERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — National forests and parks — long popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels — have become home to some of the most polluted pockets of wilderness in America because of the toxic chemicals needed to eke... Posted Nov 11 2008, 12:21 PM by accarrie with | with no comments Filed under: National Parks, national forests, chemicals, drug cartels, toxic, marijuana, destruction

• BLM, Park Service at odds over drilling near Utah parks

  A high-level fight has erupted within the Interior Department between the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service over plans to sell leases for oil and gas drilling near Arches, Canyonlands and Dinosaur National Monument. The Park Service... Posted Nov 10 2008, 10:03 PM by accarrie with | with no comments Filed under: Utah, Arches National Park, National Park Service, National Parks, Canyonlands National Park, Dinosaur National Monument, national forests, president bush, mining, oil, drilling

• Parks take back seat in election

  With more immediate issues like the economy and energy bearing down on them, presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain have not been talking a lot about national parks or land conservation this election season. Mike Woody, left, and Sam Fox... Posted Oct 31 2008, 03:42 PM by accarrie with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: National Parks, president bush, john mcCain, barack obama, election, funding, great smoky Mountains, voting, land conservation

• EPA Sued for Allowing Haze to Obscure National Parks

  WASHINGTON, DC October 22, 2008 (ENS) - Two conservation groups are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to force the federal agency to clean up emissions that cloud the air over national parks and wilderness areas. The National Parks Conservation... Posted Oct 26 2008, 09:57 PM by accarrie with | with no comments Filed under: National Parks, pollution, wilderness areas, environmental protection agency, emissions, clean, haze, fresh air, clean air act

• Bush to help open national parks to mountain bikes; Photo of Mountain Bike One!

  WASHINGTON - The Bush administration plans to make it easier for mountain bikers to gain access to national parks and other public lands before the president — an avid cyclist himself — leaves office. The National Park Service confirmed Tuesday... Posted Oct 17 2008, 11:00 AM by accarrie with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: National Parks, trails, proposal, mountain biking, president bush

• Visitors Go Online to Help Protect National Parks

  (ARA) - From camping to canoeing to cookouts -- summer draws millions of Americans to national parks each year. However, as global warming progresses, visitors may also notice the numerous adverse effects on the parks leaving many people asking: what... Posted Oct 13 2008, 10:13 PM by accarrie with | with no comments Filed under: Adventure, Vacation, Zion, Yosemite, Glacier National Park, Hiking, National Parks, camping, global warming, national parkks conservation association, oline pledges, cookouts, pollution

• Parks Prepare For Hurricane Ike in the South East Region

  Tuesday, September 09, 2008 Southeast Region Parks Prepare For Hurricane Ike South Florida parks are closed today as Hurricane Ike passes by to the south, while Gulf Coast parks are keeping a close eye on its forecast path: Everglades NP/Dry Tortugas... Posted Sep 13 2008, 03:25 PM by Stu Marks with | with no comments Filed under: National Parks, florida, Hurricane Ike

• Park Service, Grand Portage join forces to fight VHS

  This is something every fisherman should be interested in hearing about. Since this is the first I have ever heard of this, I thought maybe some of you were in the same boat. This is disturbing. Those waters are beautiful and the fish are an intricate... Posted Feb 09 2008, 03:12 PM by accorie with | with no comments Filed under: National Parks, Grand Portage National Monument, VHS, Lake Superior

• Fall/Winter Upon us

  You might be experiencing another beautiful Fall where you live; complete with many-hued trees of orange, rust, pale green and down right red over shadowing your old fashioned cobblestone and brick streets, like we have here in my south of Chicago town... Posted Nov 16 2007, 05:58 PM by Stu Marks with | with no comments Filed under: Winter, National Parks, Adventures, Autumn