Compass Points follows up on Monday’s article about the possibility of web cams in the American wilderness.
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Guns, national parks and the future debate about safety cameras in the backcountry.
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Compass Points starts a conversation about whether America has true wilderness, or is it a state of mind?
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Buffalo once made The Great Plains their personal playground, but their population has been reduced to small segments of the country. Momentum could be building, however, to establish a national park in Kansas for the reintroduction of massive bison herds.
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What’s up, Pointers? Just a quick stop to let you all know that the Senate finally on Sept. 25 confirmed Jon Jarvis as director of the National Park Service. Now, the NPS and the U.S. Interior Department can finally get on with the business of caring for and overseeing the nation’s park land. Jarvis’ confirmation quickly [...]
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I want to confess. Regarding the debate over whether people should be permitted to carry loaded guns into national parks, I’m a little torn between both sides. I do believe the words “well regulated” as they appear in the U.S. Constitution’s second amendment means government control over gun rights. I’m a firm believer in the [...]
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While we may not have answered the eternal question of whether bears drop a deuce in the woods, we do know nimrod human beings will pee into a geyser. But the case of a Yellowstone National Park webcam catching six urinators in the act of spraying Old Faithful geyser, which has led to the pee’rs perpetrators [...]
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Backpacker, phone home! That is if the news out of Yellowstone National Park – where cell phone service is about to expand – is to be believed. From the Associated Press: The (Yellowstone) plan includes a limited expansion of cell phone service, restrictions on wireless Internet at historic lodges and rules for new scientific monitoring [...]
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Since mega-Wall Street institutions melted like July snow on the slopes of Mount Washington, all other issues in the race for president have been eclipsed by what Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain would do to fix our finances. More than half of registered voters have consistently listed the economy as their most pressing [...]
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