YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK - Candlelight services at the park’s Mammoth Hot Springs Chapel are scheduled twice on Christmas Eve, but worshippers who’ve been there before know the passing elk and bison sometimes delay the services a bit.
December 26, 2007
Wildlife part of worship in Yellowstone National Park
New Jersey: Park Service at odds with landowner blocking road
While the U.S. Department of the Interior, which includes the National Park Service, clearly owns most of the Old Mine Road, title to this small stretch — less than 300 yards long — is somewhat cloudy.
Minnesota: Act now to preserve state’s wilderness
Minnesotans care about the Great Outdoors, and most of us believe that it should be a high priority in the state budget. Fish and wildlife habitat, clean drinking water and air and parks and trails are as Minnesotan as Vikings and Twins games, summers at the cabin and our prairie and North Woods.
Idaho: Land plan draws fire
But the biggest sticking point, critics say, is the way the agency divvies up the remaining 8.7 million acres of roadless land in Idaho, which is second to Alaska in having the most roadless national forest land.