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  • Huge boulder tumbles onto town next to Zion National Park

    Ralph Maughan

    Another boulder is set to tumble down and smash things- Massive rolling boulder rocks town of Rockville, UT. Buildings, vehicles damaged; another rock unstable. By Mark Havnes. The Salt Lake Tribune. In the comments to this article in the SL Trib, one person wondered if folks looked uphill before they built?  I have often wondered…

  • Yellowstone National Park Scoping for New Long Term Winter Use Plan Begins

    Ralph Maughan

    Should the Park road from West Yellowstone to Old Faithful be plowed? Earlier today “Salle” posted in our new  “Have you run across any interesting news” section her views and a large number of links relating to this important (if judged by the huge amount of litigation) set of rules for using Yellowstone in the…

  • Glacier, Yellowstone and Grand Teton manage roadside griz differently

    Ralph Maughan

    Which method works best? Actually it seems to me that there are too few differences in result so far to make a determination. Glacier hazes roadside bears; Grand Teton, Yellowstone let people close. By Cory Hatch, Jackson Hole News and Guide. Back in the days before 1970, Yellowstone let people feed sandwiches and twinkes to…

  • Mt. Rainier's melting glaciers bring down many rocks

    Ralph Maughan

    Warming climate has resulted in a big melt of glaciers on the giant volcano’s unstable slopes- Although this article focuses on the effects to Rainier National Park, melting could result in a deadly mudflow downriver. Rainier’s rocks are filling riverbeds. The fallout from Mount Rainier’s shrinking glaciers is beginning to roll downhill, and nowhere is…

  • Salt Lake Tribune doesn’t like coal strip mine between two UT national parks

    Ralph Maughan

    Proposal is for a six square mile strip mine between Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks- Initial plans are for 635 acre mine (one square mile) and would expand to over 6 square miles. The notion of a mine here has been floating around for years. Now it is serious. Coal mine. Trucks could hurt…

  • Western Watersheds puts up a bison page

    Ralph Maughan

    A new resource page for the case Western Watersheds Project, et al. v. Salazar I hope this new page will prove to be another site for good information on efforts to compell the Park Service and Forest Service to stop cooperating in the bison slaughter and eventually allow a significant number of bison to live…

  • Talk about reintroducing bison to Banff National Park area

    Ralph Maughan

    Alberta opposes Parks Canada plan for bison in Banff- I’m not suprised Alberta opposes it;  a regressive province, but it sure works for me. Story in the Calgary Herald.

  • A new park to save the plains?

    Ralph Maughan

    As the economy of the high plains falters decade after decade, the idea of a big high plains park could really help the economy- A new park to save the plains, KansasCity.com We already have approached this idea here in our discussion of the population decline of northeast Montana with wildlife from the Rockies, such…

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Edward Abbey

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