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The advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Policy found that the number of permanent law enforcement officers has dropped 15% since 2005. Seasonal officers are down 30% in the same time period.
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They signed onto a letter that calls on the National Park Service to extend reservation windows up to a year out.
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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is launching an Indian Youth Service Corps with new guidelines. The corps was established in 2019 as part of an amendment to the Public Lands Corps Act.
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Charles F. Sams III would be the 19th director of the National Park Service – and the first Native American to lead the agency.
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A federal judge ruled in February that the National Park Service's commercial filming fees were an unconstitutional violation of free speech. Now, Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso has introduced a bill that would waive those fees on all federal public lands, no matter the distribution platform.
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The National Park Service just dropped an early version of its new app. The free app, available to Android and Apple users, offers features including downloadable trail maps, lodging reservations and even audio tours.
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The coronavirus pandemic has stalled the push to establish the Amache internment camp in southeastern Colorado as a unit of the National Park System. The Colorado Sun reports the crisis has stifled the normal schedule of public comment and wreaked havoc on the prescribed timeline.
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Allegations of negligence are part of a $270 million wrongful death claim against the National Park Service after an accident in Utah’s Arches National Park earlier this year.
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Tuesday marks the 104th birthday of the National Park Service. And in celebration of that birthday, KUNC’s Colorado Edition spoke with the superintendent of one of Colorado’s four national parks, Darla Sidles from Rocky Mountain National Park.
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The Department of Interior is proposing a rule change that could open the door for more private companies to operate within national parks.