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This is sort of old news, but I was away from the Internets for a few days, so it's new to me:
Thanks to a 279-147 vote Wednesday in the House of Representatives, visitors to the nation's parks and wildlife refuges will be able to carry weapons there if they abide by state weapons laws.
It's a small fraction of the money that Bush promised The Glades, but it's better than nothing:
In 2000, Congress allocated $1.4 billion in federal funds as a down payment on the Everglades restoration project. Under the Bush administration, funding was not forthcoming. In fact, Bush vetoed a $21 billion federal water preservation bill which included almost $2 billion for Everglades restoration. Furthermore, Bush’s U.S. Department of the Interior pressured the United Nations’ World Heritage Committee to remove the Everglades from the endangered list.Fortunately for the “River of Grass”, the Obama administration has not forgotten the Everglades. $96 million of the $4.6 billion federal stimulus package earmarked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers civil works projects will go towards Everglades restoration. Additional funding of $183 million will come from the Congressional spending bill that passed last month.
Lake Tear Of The Clouds lies in the notch between New York's highest peak, Mount Marcy (5,343 ft) and Mount Skylight in the Adirondack's High Peaks Region. It is New York's highest lake and the highest source of the Hudson River.On September 14th, 1901, then-Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was at the lake on his way back from his summit of Mount Marcy when he received a message informing him that President McKinley, who had been shot two weeks earlier, had taken a turn for the worse. Shocker.Roosevelt hiked down ten miles on the southwest side of the mountain and took a midnight stagecoach ride to the Adirondack Railway station in North Creek, NY where he learned that McKinley had died and he was now the President Of The United States.The 40 mile route is now designated the Roosevelt - Marcy Trail.
The debate is over, folks. Wolves in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes region officially came off the endangered species list. This means wolf hunting will be legal in some states. More than 1,300 wolves roam the mountains of Montana and Idaho and an estimated 4,000 live in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.Read more at the Washington Post
The House of Representatives signed legislation yesterday designating 2 million U.S. acres to be wild, including 250,000 acres in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park.A wilderness designation effectively requires that the land remain undisturbed by development of any kind.
