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Coalition Talks with National Parks Traveler About DOI COVID Count

December 21, 2020 admin

UPDATE | Report: More Than 2,000 Interior Department Employees Infected By Covid-19 By Kurt Repanshek – December 18th, 2020 Editor’s note: This updates with reaction from the Coalition to Protect

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Articles, National Health Emergency

The Election Might Be Over—But Our Work As Travelers Isn’t

November 10, 2020 admin

November 9, 2020 BY MEGAN SPURRELL November 9, 2020We spent days waiting for the 2020 election results, knowing that the final call would impact the world we live in, and,

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Articles, Statementnational park management

Coalition Comments on New Mexico Lease Sales

September 1, 2020September 1, 2020 admin

  Sale of New Mexico public land to oil and gas nets $8M, despite opposition during Covid-19 Adrian Hedden Carlsbad Current-Argus The federal government made about $8.2 million from a

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ArticlesOil & Gas Lease

Park Service Under Fire for Role in GOP Convention

August 27, 2020September 1, 2020 admin

      The Hill BY REBECCA BEITSCH – 08/27/20 The National Park Service (NPS) is in hot water with ethics watchdogs for a slickly produced video promoting President Trump

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Articlesnational park management

Coalition Comments on Distribution of GAO Act Funds

August 26, 2020 admin

      Park Service anniversary finds government working to implement new funding The government is working to implement new legislation giving the National Park Service’s infrastructure a well-needed facelift

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Articles, Secretary of the InteriorGreat American Outdoors Act, national park management

Coalition Speaks Out About Resource Damage

August 25, 2020August 25, 2020 admin

      BALTIMORE (WBAL & AP) — A brick walkway at Fort McHenry was damaged by crews preparing for Vice President Mike Pence’s speech planned at the historic site

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Articlesnational park management

Coalition Speaks About Lack of Permanent NPS Director

August 15, 2020August 15, 2020 admin

How Trump bent the National Park Service to do his bidding By Mark Kaufman For the first 100 years of the National Park Service’s existence, there has almost continually been

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Articles, National Health Emergency, Secretary of the Interiornational park management

Coalition On Acting Director Vela’s Departure

August 14, 2020August 18, 2020 admin

David Vela’s reversal of fortune: ‘D.C. is a fickle place’ Rob Hotakainen, E&E News reporter Published: Friday, August 14, 2020 When President Trump signed the Great American Outdoors Act last

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Articlesnational park management

Coalition Chair Comments On What Comes After Great American Outdoors Act

August 6, 2020August 6, 2020 admin

President Trump Has Signed The Great American Outdoors Act: Now What?  By Kurt Repanshek – August 5th, 2020 4:22pm Passage of the Great American Outdoors Act has been hailed as one of

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Articles, UpdateGreat American Outdoors Act

Member Oped: Mount Rushmore Fireworks A Bad Idea

July 2, 2020July 2, 2020 admin

  Opinion by Cheryl Schreier July 1, 2020 at 4:20 p.m. EDT Cheryl Schreier was superintendent of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial from 2010 to 2019. It has been more

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Articles, National Health Emergency, OP-EDnational park management

Coalition Member Comments on Mount Rushmore Fireworks Demonstration

June 25, 2020June 25, 2020 admin

Trump is headlining fireworks at Mount Rushmore. Experts worry two things could spread: virus and wildfire. National Park Service and local fire marshal officials have warned for years about dangers

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Coalition Comments on New DOI Acting Orders

June 9, 2020September 1, 2020 admin

  Posted to The Hill – 06/09/20 06:00 AM EDT By Rebecca Beitsch and Rachel Frazin A new Interior Department move to leave controversial temporary leaders in place indefinitely may

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Articles, Secretary of the Interiornational park management

Coalition Urges Funding for Lands Package to Assist with Economic Recovery

April 17, 2020April 17, 2020 admin

The Coalition has called on the Department of Interior to shut down America’s National Parks since the COVID-19 pandemic began. But we also have continued to advocate for long-term solutions needed

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Articles, LWCF, National Health Emergency, Statement

Backpacker: Here’s How the Presidential Candidates’ Public Lands Plans Stack Up

March 11, 2020March 11, 2020 admin

  By Elizabeth Miller Mar 10, 2020 While Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden have spoken at length about fighting climate change, conservation groups say their plans for America’s public lands

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Coalition Talks Endangered Parks with National Park Traveler

December 29, 2019May 6, 2020 admin

Endangered and Threatened Units of The National Park System By Kurt Repanshek editor, National Park Traveler A commercial “spaceport” proposed to be built just west of Cumberland Island National Seashore would

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Coalition Participates in Telepresser

December 18, 2019 admin

Coalition Executive Council member Mark Butler recently participated in a telepresser about the fourth consecutive oil and gas lease sale in Nevada. This sale involves approximately 775,000 acres of public

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Op-ed: Maine needs a fully funded LWCF

December 9, 2019December 9, 2019 admin

  Op-ed by Mike Murray: Maine needs a fully funded LWCF The Land and Water Conservation Fund is our nation’s most important program to conserve irreplaceable landscapes and cultural heritage

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Articles, OP-ED, StatementLWCF

Op-ed: For the good of Maine, the Land and Water Conservation Fund must be fully funded.

December 9, 2019February 11, 2020 admin

By Sheridan Steele, Opinion guest column • December 7, 2019 10:39 am One of the greatest gifts Maine could receive this holiday season is full and dedicated funding for the Land and

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Articles, OP-ED, StatementLWCF

Coalition Chair Speaks with NPT on E-bikes in National Parks

December 6, 2019 admin

A lawsuit filed to overturn the Interior Department’s move to expand e-Bike access in the National Park System also takes aim at the Trump administration’s preference for appointing “acting” officials

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Oped: Congress must keep promise on conservation fund

December 4, 2019February 11, 2020 admin

Brenda Barrett Wednesday November 20, 2019 01:14 PM Guest opinion: Congress must keep promise on conservation fund Pennsylvania counts on program that protects landscapes, cultural heritage sites. The Land and

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