Posts Tagged: "national parks"

This Land Is Your Land. US National Parks Under Threat

by Karen Blansfield » 28 May 2018 at 12:35 pm

“National parks are the best idea we ever had,” wrote author and environmentalist Wallace Stegner in 1983. “Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.” Stegner echoes the view of President Franklin D. Roosevelt nearly fifty years earlier when he pronounced, “There is nothing so American as our national […]

People Will Die: New Hunting Laws to Take Effect in Australian National Parks

by Laura Simpson Reeves » 6 May 2013 at 5:37 pm

Beginning later this year, any person with a recreational hunting license will be able to shoot “feral pests” across almost 80 national parks and reserves in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW), including the highly popular Kosciusko, Warrumbungle and Myall Lakes National Parks. The program, which the NSW government calls “Supplementary Pest Control,” […]