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At 03:36 PM 8/31/06, you wrote:

>Off-Off-Road

>New National Park Service guidelines will emphasize conservation

>

>Today, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne will announce new National Park

>Service management guidelines that emphasize ... wait for it ...

>conservation. Wha-huh? The new regulations more or less disregard

>revisions proposed a year ago under previous Interior Secretary Gale

>Norton that would have expanded motorized recreation; instead, they're

>modeled on more nature-lovin' park-management policies that have been in

>place for 90 years. The new guidelines do not allow increased use of jet

>skis, snowmobiles, or off-road vehicles in national parks, nor do they

>favor commercial activities like mining and cell-phone-tower construction.

>They allow the Park Service to push the U.S. EPA to clean up park air

>pollution. The only sop to the recreation industry is an assurance that

>the communities that neighbor large national parks, which often have

>recreation-based economies, will have a role in park management

>decision-making. You da man, Dirk.

>

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>straight to the source: The New York Times, Felicity Barringer, 31 Aug 2006

>

>straight to the source: Los Angeles Times, Julie Cart, 31 Aug 2006

 

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