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Congress designated the Old Spanish Trail in 2002. The U.S. Department of Interior was then supposed to submit a plan for the trail’s use and management – but never did. That’s why the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is leading a lawsuit against the federal ...

A lack of park rangers puts more visitors in harm’s way, said Jeff Ruch, PEER’s Pacific director. “People are going deeper into places where they shouldn’t be and getting into trouble,” said Ruch, noting that park search-and-rescue calls have more than tripled between 2015 ...

“This summer, the National Park Service came out with a policy allowing electric bicycles in the same places as traditional bikes. A new federal lawsuit is challenging that rule. Last week, the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, led a coalition of ...