National Park Service Getting Around To eBike Regulations
by National Parks Traveler | April 3, 2020
“More than six months after Interior Secretary David Bernhardt ordered the National Park Service to expand access for eBike users in the National Park System, the agency is getting around to drafting regulations for the motorized cycles and would soon seek public input. Back in ...
Op-Ed | What’s Become Of The National Park Service’s Focus On History?
by National Parks Traveler | March 2, 2020
“While overall employment in the agency has dropped by 3,500 or 16 percent, since 2011, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the number of historians in the Park Service has taken a much greater hit, percentage-wise, dropping from 449 in 2010 to just 149 ...
National Park 2019 Visitation Reaches More Than 327 Million
by National Parks Traveler | February 27, 2020
“More than 327 million visitors descended on the National Park System in 2019, a number that is seen as the third-highest single year tally dating to 1904, yet the head count comes at a time when some parks are overcrowded, National Park Service ranks are depleted, and Congress ...
Musing From The Parks | Hunting Bandelier, Employee Housing, Smith’s Job
by National Parks Traveler | February 24, 2020
“If you’re paying attention, the press release touting the effort of U.S. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico to rebrand Bandelier National Monument as a national park sounds noble. It’s what he’s not publicly promoting in that legislation that you should to pay attention ...
PEER Claims Administration’s Use Of “Acting” Positions Creating Leadership Vacuum In NPS
by National Parks Traveler | February 19, 2020
“The Trump administration has gone three years without a Senate-confirmed director of the National Park Service and filled many jobs with ‘acting’ positions, a practice that Public Employees For Environmental Responsibility claims has created a ‘leadership vacuum ...