Pressured by the gun lobby and 51 US senators, the Interior Department proposes enhancing everyone’s national park experience by letting people pack heat with a picnic. That’s just what the nation’s millions of park visitors don’t need.
May 6, 2008
Armed to kill in national parks?
Alaska: Grey wolf freed from snare
On Friday, though, park wildlife biologist Tom Meier and a veterinarian spotted the wolf’s tracks in fresh snow atop a ridge and went after it. Meier immobilized the wolf with a tranquilizer dart and veterinarian Denise Albert removed the snare, cleaned the gaping wound and gave the wolf antibiotics.
Colorado: Record settlement for damage to Rocky Mountain National Park
The Water Supply and Storage Company, a mutual ditch company and the owner and operator of the Grand River Ditch, is settling a federal claim for damages caused by a May 30, 2003 breach of the Grand River Ditch.
Colorado: Lynx habitat drilling free for now
Canada lynx introduced to Colorado since 1999 caught a break when the U.S. Bureau of Land Management last week withdrew its planned lease of 146,000 acres in the Rio Grande National Forest for gas and oil development.
Arizona: Forest Service sued over $5 Mt. Lemmon fee
Gaye Adams, Greg Lewis, Daniel Patterson and Christine M. Wallace - all active in the Arizona No Fee Coalition, which has long opposed the Mt. Lemmon fee - sued for themselves and for thousands of others who have paid the $5 since 1996, said Mary Ellen Barilotti, the group’s Oregon lawyer.