The Wilderness Sportsman

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A McCain campaign commercial also tweaks the bear research: “Three million to study the DNA of bears in Montana. Unbelievable.”

Actually, it was a scientific and logistical triumph, argues Katherine Kendall, 56, mastermind of the Northern Divide Grizzly Bear Project.

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Loaded guns have been prohibited in national parks since the 1930s. These rules work, and have long contributed to the indisputable fact that our national parks are among the safest places in America.
The rules have also been an essential part of our efforts to protect wildlife and prevent poaching. Key to the success of this regulation is public support.

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“I jumped up and down for a while, then I looked at it, then I would get up again and then sit down and look at it again,” she said. It took Moriarty 10 minutes to compose herself, and then she called Zielinski and, barely able to contain herself, told him to look at the e-mail she had just sent him.

“I was dumbfounded,” Zielinski said. “I just could not believe, nor could she, what we were looking at.”

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President Teddy Roosevelt understood the value of the Ocala National Forest’s “Big Scrub.” A hundred years ago, on Nov. 24, 1908, he signed a bill formally establishing the forest. Nearly all the original 165,000 acres was sand pine scrub. Land purchases have enlarged the forest to 382,318 acres.

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Arizona has 3.3 million acres under the umbrella of the National Landscape Conservation System. That includes five national monuments, three conservation areas, two national historic trails, 47 wilderness areas and two wilderness study areas.