Fwd: National Park Lines 2000-17

[Teddy Lancaster <Teddy@runningbear.com>]

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>National Park Lines, 2000-17, Friday, April 28, 2000
>News for NPCA's Park Activist Network
>E-mail:  TakeAction@npca.org   Web:  http://www.npca.org
>In this issue:
>1. NPS Announces Stronger Snowmobile Regulation Enforcement
>2. ACT TODAY!  What (Exactly) Is The "Great Western Trail"?
>3. Midwest Activists Invited To NPCA Workshop
>4. NPCA Earth Day Table A Success!
>5. With A Little Help From Your Friends!
>6.  Park Speak
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>NPS ANNOUNCES STRONGER SNOWMOBILE REGULATION ENFORCEMENT: The National
>Park Service (NPS) just this week, promised to strictly enforce existing
>regulations regarding recreational snowmobiling throughout the entire
>National Park System.  Approximately 42 units of the National Park
>System have some level of snowmobile use, and over 180,000 snowmobiles
>use the parks annually, the vast majority of them in Yellowstone, Grand
>Teton, Rocky Mountain, and Voyageurs National Parks.  Recent research at
>Yellowstone, where snowmobile use is heaviest, has shown that
>snowmobiles can seriously damage park resources. The NPS estimates that
>78 percent of the carbon monoxide and 94 percent of the hydrocarbons
>emitted annually within Yellowstone can be attributed to snowmobiles. In
>addition, snowmobiles adversely affect wildlife in the parks, as noise
>and the physical presence of snowmobiles can cause animals to alter
>activity patterns at a time of year when food supplies are low and the
>ability to conserve energy may be critical to an animal's survival.
>While the NPS announcement is great news, there are potential dangers
>lurking in Congress that may disrupt this decision.  TAKE ACTION!  We
>need your help on this critical issue in two ways.  First, visit
>http://www.npca.org/takeaction/yellowstonealert.html to send an
>electronic letter to the Montana congressional delegation, urging them
>to phase out snowmobiles in Yellowstone.  Then, write or call your
>members of congress and urge them to help our national parks by
>supporting the NPS system-wide ban on snowmobiles, and to reject any
>appropriations riders and any other efforts to disrupt the NPS's normal
>regulatory procedures.  To send an e-mail to your members, just visit
>http://www.npca.org/cgi-bin/congress.pl?cf=npca/cong.cf or call using
>202/224-3121 and ask to be transferred to your members.  For a complete
>fact sheet, and to let us know you took action write to
>TakeAction@npca.org.
>
>ACT TODAY! WHAT (EXACTLY) IS THE "GREAT WESTERN TRAIL?":  Please pass
>this alert along to at least 5 of your friends!  A Utah-based off-road
>vehicle (ORV) lobby is asking Congress to amend the National Trails Act
>to designate the "Great Western Trail (GWT)," a Mexico-to-Canada
>motorized recreation corridor that would convert quiet trails into ORV
>highways and ruin vast tracts of America 's last and best wild desert,
>canyons and mountains. The GWT proposal aims to radically alter the
>purpose and intent of the National Trails Act to include "trails" whose
>primary purpose is driving ORVs.  In fact, the GWT is not even a trail
>at all, but a marketing scheme by ORV interests aimed at establishing a
>vast interstate ORV corridor connecting Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon,
>Capitol Reef, Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks for thousands of
>tourists to drive dirt-bikes, all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles.
>TAKE ACTION TODAY!  Public comments on the proposed ORV corridor are
>needed TODAY, before the report is submitted to Congress!  Don't let
>them turn America's trails into ORV highways!  In your comments, mention
>that you oppose establishing the Great Western Trail on public lands,
>and that you oppose amending the purpose of the National Trails Act to
>designate ORV interstates.  Finally, oppose turning over public land
>management to private ORV lobbies.  Send your comments TODAY to:
>Roshanna Stone, Great Western Trail Study Team, U.S. Forest Service,
>2647 Kimberly Road E., Twin Falls, Idaho  83301, e-mail
>rstone/r4_sawtooth@fs.fed.us.  Let us know you took action by writing to
>TakeAction@npca.org.  Please pass this alert on to at least 5 friends -
>thanks!!
>
>MIDWEST ACTIVISTS INVITED TO NPCA ALASKA WORKSHOP:  The upcoming 20th
>Anniversary of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act
>(ANILCA) is a time to celebrate the creation and expansion of the
>magnificent Alaska national parks. Unfortunately, the Alaska
>congressional delegation is continuing their attempts to rollback many
>of the protections given to these lands and the wildlife which inhabit
>them. They are pushing to allow snowmobiles into the core wilderness
>area of Denali National Park, and attempting to build a 90-mile railroad
>into the heart of the park.  Also at stake the Arctic National Wildlife
>Refuge, the coastal plain of which could be opened to off-shore oil and
>gas drilling.  TAKE ACTION!  This workshop, the weekend of May 5th - 7th,
>is a great opportunity to meet conservation staff and other activists
>from Midwest states to learn more about Alaska lands issues and how to
>effectively block these threats to our natural treasures!  The
>conference is being held in the beautiful Indiana Dunes Environmental
>Living Center in Chesterton, IN.  The cost for the entire weekend is
>only $20, which will cover two nights' stay at the Environmental Center,
>meals, workshops, and materials.  To register or to receive more
>details, contact John Rosapepe at 1-800-628-7275 ext. 265 or
>jrosapepe@npca.org.   Act now, as space is limited.  We hope you will
>join us, and please share this invitation with your conservation-minded
>friends and coworkers!
>
>NPCA EARTH DAY TABLE A SUCCESS:  On Saturday, April 22, NPCA set up a
>table at Earth Fair 2000 on the Mall in Washington, DC, to celebrate
>Earth Day!  We had a hugely successful day, with one of the busiest and
>most energetic booths to be found on the Mall!  NPCA staff spoke with
>hundreds and hundreds of people about national park issues, and got
>close to 2,000 signatures on petitions to protect Denali National Park &
>Preserve in AK from snowmobiles and potential railroad construction, and
>to help restore the water flow to the Everglades Ecosystem.  TAKE
>ACTION! If you'd like to get some signatures for these petitions - we'll
>let you!  Just write to TakeAction@npca.org for a copy of one or each of
>these petitions that you can take to school, to the office, or share
>with friends and family!  The more signatures we get, the bigger the
>impact of our message!
>
>WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM YOUR FRIENDS!  While more people are enjoying
>our national parks, they continue to remain in dire straits and in need
>of strong public support.  We need your help - we need your friends!
>Please pass National Park Lines along to one of your friends and ask
>them to subscribe today.  Let them know they'll be joining the growing
>ranks of citizens protecting national parks for future generations!  You
>can simply send your friend to
>http://www.npca.org/takeaction/pan_parklines.html so they can subscribe
>today!   Any questions can be directed to Stephany at
>TakeAction@npca.org.  Thanks for your support - we truly would not be
>able to do this without you!
>
>PARK SPEAK:  "We can never have enough of Nature." - Henry David
>Thoreau, 1854
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>*National Park Lines is a publication of the National Parks Conservation
>Association's Park Activist Network.  To learn how you and your friends
>can become more involved in national park advocacy, visit our web site
>at http://www.npca.org, or contact our grassroots staff at
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