1. 22 October 2005

    1173 days ago

    The National Parks Under Siege

    This new policy document … would eliminate the requirement that only motorized equipment with the least impact should be used in national parks. It would lower air-quality standards and strip away language about preserving the parks’ natural soundscape – language that currently makes it hard, for instance, to justify allowing snowmobiles into Yellowstone. It would also refer park superintendents to other management documents that have been revised to weaken fundamental standards and protections for the parks.

    via Kjell Olsen1173 days ago

  2. 29 September 2005

    1196 days ago

    Our Parks in Peril (By Jim Motavalli)

    The legislation supported by the bush administration is absolutely absurd.

    Section 6306 requires NPS to sell for private use any park that receives less than 10,000 visitors per day. Most of the 15 parks that meet that designation are in Alaska, and all are national treasures.

    via Kjell Olsen1196 days ago

  3. 06 September 2005

    1219 days ago

    Destroying the National Parks

    Bush is doing his best to fuck up America. His department of the interior is passing a draft of new legislation regulating our National parks, and it isn’t pretty.

    Mr. Hoffman’s rewrite would open up nearly every park in the nation to off-road vehicles, snowmobiles and Jet Skis. According to his revision, the use of such vehicles would become one of the parks’ purposes. To accommodate such activities, he redefines impairment to mean an irreversible impact. To prove that an activity is impairing the parks, under Mr. Hoffman’s rules, you would have to prove that it is doing so irreversibly – a very high standard of proof. This would have a genuinely erosive effect on the standards used to protect the national parks.

    Who the fuck voted for this piece of shit?

    via Kjell Olsen1219 days ago

  4. 28 August 2005

    1228 days ago

    Controversy Over Plans for Changes in U.S. Parks - Los Angeles Times

    Why not use national park land for mines and cell towers, says the Bush Department of the Interior.

    Kjell Olsen1228 days ago

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