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The Thin Green Line
May 1, 2003 Park rangers are increasingly outnumbered and outgunned by poachers, drug smugglers and other criminals. ith its bucolic vistas and soul-soothing forest trails, Shenandoah National Park seems to be a perfect place to forget your troubles. But visitors who come seeking solace should remember that criminals frequent the park too. There ...
Swamped
April 1, 2003 The managers of Big Cypress National Preserve struggle to balance a wide range of competing demands on the preserve's resources. oosting birds scatter from treetops as Bill Evans' helicopter whirs across Florida's Big Cypress Swamp. With herons, egrets and wood storks fluttering like brilliant white confetti below, he circles a ...
Taming The West
January 1, 2003 Once sworn enemies, Western loggers, ranchers and environmentalists are learning to work together to manage public lands. he federal government's new land preserve is a breathtaking beauty in northern New Mexico's Jemez Mountains, an hour's drive from Santa Fe. Dubbed "the Yellowstone of the Southwest" by outdoors enthusiasts, Valles Caldera, ...
Split Personality
May 15, 2002 EPA tries to spawn innovation in a sea of red tape and political pressure. here are two Environmental Protection Agencies. One is an enthusiastic innovator that has won awards for finding electronic solutions to regulatory problems. Visit EPA's online Compliance Assistance Centers (www.assistancecenters.net) to see how the agency has teamed ...
Rule Breakers
January 1, 2002 John Graham and a squad of anti-rule Bush nominees are attempting to reinvigorate the war on regulations oping to boost a flagging national economy, the new President moved quickly to ease the burdens of federal regulation on American businesses. Within eight months of taking office, he issued an executive order ...
Interior Department
June 28, 2001 Established: 1849 Address: 1849 C St. NW, Washington, DC 20240 Phone: 202-208-3100 2001 Budget:: $9.5 billion Employment:: 69,233 Web Site: www.doi.gov Functions: The Interior Department is the federal government's principal conservation agency, responsible for governing most nationally owned public lands and resources. The department administers land grants, oversees outdoor recreation, ...
Envrionmental Cleanup
June 1, 2001 Critics say the Environmental Protection Agency's scientific efforts are contaminated by mismanagement and red tape. cientists at the Environmental Protection Agency work in the trenches of an increasingly complicated and controversial battle to protect natural resources and public health. They've had some stunning victories. EPA scientists played a major role ...
Senate Democrats slam Bush nominee to oversee federal regulations
May 18, 2001 Those "provocative ideas" that Harvard Professor John Graham expressed over a decade about the folly of some environmental rules haunted him Thursday during a Senate Governmental Affairs hearing on his fitness to run the Office of Management and Budget's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., charged ...
The perils of preservation
April 1, 2001 cosystem restoration-the attempt to repair entire landscapes-is a hot topic among government environmental planners and ecologists. Can lessons learned by officials managing the Everglades ecosystem project be useful elsewhere? "Yes, there are key transferrable lessons, but the biggest mistake you can make is to take this as boilerplate," says Terrence ...
Natural wonder
April 1, 2001 loridians spent most of the 20th century shriveling up the Everglades, the shallow grassy river that cuts a wide swath through much of the southern half of their peninsula. The goal was to turn those marshy prairies into high, dry real estate, the richest farmland in the world. And with ...
