NewsRack: 'National Parks' news in 'Biodiversity' topic for user irge304

Study Is First To Chart Amphibian Populations' Decline In U.S.	24.5.2013	NPR News
Populations of frogs, salamanders and other amphibians are declining at an average rate of 3.7 percent each year, according to a U.S. Geological Survey study released this week.
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Amphibians' Population Decline Marked In New U.S. Study	24.5.2013	NPR Health Science
Populations of frogs, salamanders, and other amphibians are declining at an average rate of 3.7 percent each year, according to a U.S. Geological Survey study released this week. Researchers say the study is the first to calculate how quickly amphibians are disappearing in the United States.
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A Look Back: Utah’s national parks over the years	24.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
the Salt Lake Tribune Published May 24, 2013 06:48AM MDT Each Friday, The Salt Lake Tribune presents images from its archives in a special series called A Look Back. This week’s installment profiles Utah’s scenic national parks: Arches, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef and Zion. Every gallery of the series is available at www.sltrib.com/topics/lookback. Here are some of the previous installments: Life on the Ute Reservation in early the 1900s Women’s fashion in the 1960s Dogs in Utah around 1900 Utah’s early cultural diversity Utah arti... ...
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Don't-miss spots in the Smokies	23.5.2013	CNN: Top Stories
The boundary between Tennessee and North Carolina might be one of the loveliest border crossings ever: It's the crest of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Hikers on the Appalachian Trail walk the line between the two states for most of the trail's path through the park.
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How America became a third world country \| Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford for TomDispatch	21.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
The politicians who tweeted while America burned are dismantling our society piece by piece with budget cuts The streets are so much darker now since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments. The national parks began closing down years ago. Some are already being subdivided and sold to the highest bidder. Reports on bridges crumbling or even collapsing are commonplace. The air in city after city hangs brown and heavy (and rates of childhood asthma and other lung diseases have shot up), because funding that would allow the enforcement of clean air standards by the Environmental Protection Agency is a distant memory. Public education has been cut to the bone, making good schools a luxury, and, according to the Department of Education, two of every five students won't graduate from high school. It's 2023 – this is America a decade years after the federal budget cuts known as sequestration. They went on for a decade, making no exception for effective programs that were ...
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America 10 Years After Sequestration	21.5.2013	Mother Jones
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. The streets are so much darker now, since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments. The national parks began closing down years ago. Some are already being subdivided and sold to the highest bidder. Reports on bridges crumbling or even collapsing are commonplace. The air in city after city hangs brown and heavy (and rates of childhood asthma and other lung diseases have shot up), because funding that would allow the enforcement of clean air standards by the Environmental Protection Agency is a distant memory. Public education has been cut to the bone, making good schools a luxury and, according to the Department of Education, two of every five students won't graduate from high school. It's 2023—and this is America 10 years after the first across-the-board federal budget cuts known as sequestration went into effect. They went on for a decade, making no exception for effective programs vital to America's ...
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Utah Gov. Herbert rails against US Land management	21.5.2013	AP Washington
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Utah Gov. Gary Herbert says his state does a better job than federal managers and has a bigger stake than the bureaucrats in protecting the natural resources and rugged beauty that drives Utah's outdoor recreation and tourism industry....
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Rare island fox rebounds on California island	21.5.2013	Seattle Times: Nation & World
The rare and tiny island fox is on the verge of making a comeback from near-extinction on Santa Cruz Island, the largest of the Channel Islands off Southern California.
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US couple donates land to Argentine park (Cached)	18.5.2013	New Kerala: World News
Buenos Aires, May 18 : The Conservation Land Trust, a project of US philanthropists and environmental activists Douglas and Kris Tompkins, donated 15,000 hectares for the expansion of Perito Moreno National Park in southern Argentina.
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Need fed programs	16.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
Published May 16, 2013 01:01AM MDT In “Just take it all” (Forum, May 9), David Barnes sees the proposal to have online retailers charge the same sales tax that local merchants do as just another government attempt to add yet another tax. He fears socialism is taking over. What’s he moaning about? Americans are getting value for what they’re paying for, and it’s for something they want. The two biggest federal programs are Social Security and Medicare, and so far they’re covered by their own payroll taxes, not income tax. Does Bar... ...
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Ruth LePlatt (Cached)	15.5.2013	Durango Herald
Former Durango resident Ruth LePlatt died Friday, May 10, 2013, in Farmington. She was 79.Mrs. LePlatt was born to Ted F. and Amanda Sooter on March 9, 1934, in Golden. The Sooter family later moved to Durango from Monte Vista shortly after her graduation from Monte Vista High School.In Durango, she attended Fort Lewis College...
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Senate rejects firearms on more federal lands	8.5.2013	AP Politics
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate has rejected an effort to expand the use of firearms on the heavily visited lands of the Army Corps of Engineers in a congressional victory for gun control supporters....
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Senate rejects firearms on Army Corps of Engineers lands in win for gun control supporters	8.5.2013	Star Tribune: Politics

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Interior secretary: Cuts hurting mission of national parks	8.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Thomas Burr The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 7, 2013 04:45PM MDT Washington • Interior Secretary Sally Jewell told a Senate committee on Tuesday that the automatic spending cuts now hitting her budget are distracting the department from carrying out its mission. “I know it’s not where you want us to go; it’s not where we want to go,” Jewell told the Senate Appropriations subcommittee overseeing her spending blueprints. “It’s very, very difficult,” Jewell continued. “It’s hard on employees who are hard working, to all the things that you care about as well. T... ...
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Rising violence in CAR nature reserve (Cached)	7.5.2013	New Kerala: World News
New York, May 7 : The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has expressed deep concern over the rise of poaching, armed violence and destruction in the Central African Republic's (CAR) Dzanga-Sanga National Park, which is on the agency's World Heritage List.
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Federal sequestration cuts taking their toll	6.5.2013	Seattle Times: Top stories
Congress last month delivered a last-minute rescue that ended furloughs for air traffic controllers, but reprieves from the pain of the $85 billion in federal budget cuts known as “sequestration” appear to be over.
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Sequester Leads to Creative Stopgap Measures	6.5.2013	NY Times: Washington
Sequester Leads to Creative Stopgap Measures
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Mount Fuji poised to get World Heritage status	1.5.2013	Seattle Times: Nation & World
Japan's iconic Mount Fuji looks likely to win recognition as a World Heritage site.
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Mt. Fuji poised to get World Heritage status	1.5.2013	Seattle Times: Nation & World
Japan's iconic Mt. Fuji looks likely to win recognition as a World Heritage site.
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Japan's Mt. Fuji poised to get World Heritage status	1.5.2013	Star Tribune: World

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