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Job Journal
April 1, 2007 |
Career Snapshot: Park Ranger Part cop, part naturalist, part tour guide, rangers do it all.   |
Job Journal
June 8, 2008
Julia Hollister |
Outdoor Occupations Take an outside track for these cubicle-free careers in the great wide open. |
National Defense
April 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Border Patrol Wages Daily Battle Against Smugglers As new immigration legislation winds through the House and Senate this year -- and lawmakers debate the 2007 budget request for boosts in both technology funding and manpower -- the demand in the US for cheap labor and narcotics promises to continue unabated. |
National Defense
July 2008
Stew Magnuson |
Contentious Debate Over Border Fences Won't End Soon Dormant as a national issue until late 2005, securing the southern border suddenly became an intensely debated subject and a political hot potato. |
Geotimes
December 2005
Naomi Lubick |
National Parks in Crisis America's national parks are facing a financial crisis: The parks have a $600 million shortfall, on top of a maintenance backlog of $4.5 billion to $9.7 billion. In response, the National Park Service and Congress are devising new methods for fundraising, some of which are controversial. |
Reason
April 2009
Brian Doherty |
Guns in Parks? Thanks to a regulatory change by the outgoing Bush administration, it is legal to carry concealed and loaded weapons in national parks and wildlife refuges, as long as it's permitted in the state. |
Smithsonian
June 2005
Charles Petit |
Hazy Days in Our Parks The air in many national wilderness wonderlands is getting worse. As officials debate controversial new rules to curb pollution, scientists find the sources are surprisingly far-flung. |
Outside
May 2010 |
The Best State Parks Follow our guide to America's wild and relatively untrampled state parks, national lakeshores, and recreation areas. |
Outside
June 2002
Weston Kosova |
What's Gale Norton Trying to Hide? George W. Bush's Secretary of the Interior keeps a low profile, keeps her mouth shut, and never picks a fight. As the steward of 507 million public acres, she has deftly combined an aggressive, pro-extraction agenda and Bush's wartime clout to steamroll environmentalists... |
Outside
September 2008
Jason Daley |
Kill the Parks. Kill 'Em All. It may be the only way to save the crown jewels of American public land. |
AskMen.com
Jasper Anson |
Top 10: National Parks With such a giant landscape to work with, the United States holds a multitude of national parks for local and international tourists to sample any time of the year. |
National Defense
August 2004
Joe Pappalardo |
U.S.-Mexico Rapport Transformed by Terrorist Threat Efforts are under way on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border to reform the national security relationship between the two nations in response to increased terrorism fears. |
Geotimes
December 2004
Megan Sever |
Review of Creationist Book Shelved The Department of the Interior has yet to reach a decision on the sale in Grand Canyon National Park of a book that tells a biblical story of the creation of the Grand Canyon. |
Geotimes
February 2005
Megan Sever |
Glacier: Crown of the Continent Established as a national park in 1910, Glacier National Park's geologic and ecologic significance is internationally recognized. |
National Defense
September 2004 |
Army Provides `Chariots' To Park Rangers The Metropark rangers will use their personal transport vehicles to patrol bicycle paths, parking lots and picnic areas. Feedback from the rangers will contribute to the creation of a military hybrid fuel vehicle that American Chariot is developing. |
Smithsonian
August 2007
Jess Blumberg |
State of Emergency The slaughter of four endangered mountain gorillas in war-ravaged Congo sparks conservationist action. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
Susan Karlin |
A Recipe For Development Science parks have enabled some countries to become globally competitive in certain technologies. The most successful and competitive programs tie their science focus to the research and university anchors. |
