National Park Service
September 14, 2009--Regional councils key to feds' climate change response (Environmental News Service)
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today signed an order establishing eight
regional Interior Department Climate Change Response Centers to
coordinate and develop strategies to cope with climate change impacts
on public lands, fresh waters, oceans, fish, wildlife, and cultural
resources.
July 21, 2009--Polluted rain, snow raises concerns for sensitive landscapes in 16 national parks (L.A. Times)
A pollutant that can slowly trigger changes in the lives of plants and animals is increasingly being found in 16 National Park Service sites, mostly in the Western United States.
July 19, 2009--Invasive mussels imperil western water system (Denver Post)
Two years after an invasive mussel was first discovered at Lake Mead, the population has firmly established itself and gone on a breeding binge, with numbers soaring into the trillions.
- Agriculture
- Aqueduct
- Arizona
- California
- Colorado River
- Invasive Species
- Irrigation
- Lake Mead
- Lake Powell
- Lake Tahoe
- Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- National Park Service
- Nevada
- Press Clippings
- Quagga Mussels
- U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Utah
- Water Storage
- Zebra Mussels
July 16, 2009--Rec plans move ahead (Durango Herald)
Animas-La Plata Water Conservancy District trustees have pledged $25,000 toward hiring a consultant to produce a recreation plan for a regional playground at Lake Nighthorse.
- Animas River
- Animas-La Plata Project
- Animas-La Plata Water Conservancy District
- Colorado
- Colorado State Parks
- Great Outdoors Colorado
- Lake Nighthorse
- National Park Service
- New Mexico
- Northwest New Mexico Water Rights Settlement Act
- Press Clippings
- Recreation
- Southwestern Colorado Water Conservation District
- Water Rights
- Water Storage
- Water Supply
June 27, 2009--Activists hot over senator's stance on oyster farm (Denver Post)
A powerful Senate Democrat is backing an oyster farmer over the National Park Service in a northern California controversy that has environmentalists seething.
June 26, 2009--Trillions of invasive mussels in Lake Mead (Denver Post)
University researchers estimate that Lake Mead's Boulder Basin is infested with nearly three trillion invasive mussels.
May 13, 2009--Water war culminates in an unfettered Gunnison (Colorado Springs Gazette)
The largest waterfall in Colorado was here Wednesday, a gushing torrent that plunged 227 feet, surpassing Niagara Falls, swelling the Gunnison River to levels unprecedented in the age of dams and dive
May 8, 2009--Black Canyon river flows swell after 36-year fight (Denver Post)
After one of the biggest water battles in Colorado history, extra water began flowing out of the Crystal Reservoir on Thursday to restore Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park.
April 22, 2009--Desert clash in West over solar potential, water (Aurora Sentinel)
A westward dash to power electricity-hungry cities by cashing in on the desert's most abundant resource — sunshine — is clashing with efforts to protect the tiny pupfish and desert tortoise and stinginess
March 16, 2009--Lead ammunition no longer ok in national parks (Environmental News Service)
The National Park Service is stepping up efforts to eliminate poisonous lead from national parks by persuading hunters and fishermen to use shot and sinkers made of less toxic metals.
