Facing withering criticism from House Republicans, the director of the National Park Service Tuesday rejected suggestions the agency purposely hyped the negative impact of mandatory spending reductions for political gain.
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Nat'l Park Service using sharpshooters to kill deer in DC park...
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WASHINGTON, March 27 (UPI) — Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, told Park Police he would not pay a $25 ticket for parking near the Lincoln Memorial because “oversight of Park Service is my job.”
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…The National Park Service said the contractor — a Lothian company called Greentree — was supposed to cut down a dead ash tree on the other side of the park. There was nothing wrong with the ginkgo….
It was memorialized in 2006 as part of the Park Service’s Witness Tree Protection Program, an effort to encourage the public to relate to the history of the city through its trees. Historian Jonathan Pliska wrote that the ginkgo was probably planted in 1873, although it may have been there earlier and been incorporated into the design of the square, which honors Adm. David Glasgow Farragut, the naval hero best known for saying: “Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!”
The tree was 102 feet tall, with a crown spread of 79 feet and trunk circumference of 142 inches. That made it the largest ginkgo in Washington. Apparently it was a male, so it didn’t have that stinky fruit….
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at History News Network – George Mason University
A federal appeals court is upholding the National Park Service‘s decision not to reintroduce wolves to Rocky Mountain National Park to control the elk population.
WildEarth Guardians had argued that the Park Service violated environmental laws when it ruled out using wolves and when it decided to use trained volunteers to help Park Service employees shoot and kill excess elk.
A federal judge in 2011 ruled that the agency took a hard look at relevant data before concluding that reintroducing wolves wasn’t a feasible option and that volunteers’ shooting the elk to limit the population wasn’t the same as hunting, which involves shooting for food or sport. Hunting is generally banned within the park.
On Wednesday, a three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the judge’s ruling.
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Nearly 200,000 American citizens in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties could lose free use of their private lands and property if the proposed Rim of the Valley National Park converting two national parks becomes law! A continuation of United Nations-sponsored Agenda 21′s aims of shoving American citizens into carefully defined clusters of living space around large urban populations, the Rim of the Valley plan would severely affect personal liberty! Urgent action is needed to stop this huge new federal land grab threat, says Chuck Cushman of the American Land Right Association.
“It will start with a small scope and gradually increase over time until the Federal Government and the National Park Service take over huge portions of the mountains around Los Angeles.” The Rim of the Valley consists of parts of the Santa Monica Mountains, the Santa Susanna Mountains, the San Gabriel Mountains, the Verdugo Mountains, the San Rafael Hills, and adjacent connector areas to Los Padres and San Bernardino National Forests, according to Congressman Adam Schiff.
Nearly ½ million acres, over two thirds the size of Yosemite, could be under the control of the US Forest Service. Coffee mugs with the inscription “Forest Circus US Department of Aggravation” being sold in Montana already express disdain for the rapidly expanding federal agency.
Cushman reveals the mind-set of federal official David Hales who allegedly said, “If Congress puts a circle around a land area, we’re going to own it all.” Such is the aim of Agenda 21, a one world, UN initiative designed to adversely impact private property rights (particularly in the United States) by seeking to cram residents into approximately 900 square feet of “dwelling space” and move them off of wide open land areas and out of suburban sprawl locations.
Additionally, California farmers are very upset about plans by Gov. Jerry Brown to move water from their farmlands through tunnels into drought areas in the Southern part of the state. “Although portions of the San Gabriel River and its tributaries have been altered for flood protection and water conservation, these urbanized channels still serve as habitat for wildlife and often provide opportunities for recreation,” maintains the left. For decades, liberals have threatened the existence of farmers by diverting vitally important water resources in order to prevent harm coming to their furry little “endangered” friends! Crops die as progressives consider the needs of a bug more important than those of a man. Should Rim of the Valley become law, the damage inflicted by these programs of environmental lunacy will increase.
Rim of the Valley will place a Park Service noose around the necks of 169,000 threatened landowners: 158,000 in LA County and 11,000 in Ventura County, says Cushman. He calls the regulatory costs staggering, with a projected $2 Billion dollar figure for land acquisition alone. Making the Rim of the Valley National Park the most expensive in American history, this project could drain off needed repair and maintenance funds from other, older parks.
Cushman is urging concerned citizens all over the United States to contact the National Park Service, Rim of the Valley Corridor Special Resource Study, 570 W. Avenue 26, #175, Los Angeles, CA 90065. E-mail: pwr_rimofthevalley@nps.gov. You also need to contact your CA senators and US House of Representatives, toll free at 1-877-762-8762.
