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In May, 2003, three former high-ranking National Park Service employees spoke at a Press Conference in Washington DC against actions being taken by Bush Administration officials that were having detrimental effects on the National Park Service and the national park system. At the same time, a letter was sent to President Bush and Interior Secretary Norton, signed by 20 NPS retirees, voicing similar concerns. On August 15, 2003, over 120 NPS retirees signed and released another letter to President George W. Bush and Interior Secretary Gale Norton calling for an end to the Administration's unprecedented attack on national parks. We have developed this website as a way to voice our concerns about actions being undertaken that we feel could diminish the values and purposes for which the national park system was established.
 
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"If we are going to succeed in preserving the greatness of the national parks, they must be held inviolate. They represent the last stands of primitive America. If we are going to whittle away at them we should recognize, at the very beginning, that all such whittlings are cumulative, and that the end result will be mediocrity."

AMERICA’S NATIONAL PARKS ARE LIKELY TO SEE MORE GUNS
An amendment to the Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights Act of 2009, authored by Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), and promoted by the NRA, passed by the Congress and signed into law by the President on May 22 of last year, permits park visitors to possess firearms in national park areas consistent with the laws of the state in which the area is located.
Feb 8, 2010

Letter to Salazar and Jarvis on Guns Regulation

NPS should issue guidance to explain how this new legislation affects existing regulations so as to prevent unnecessary threats

Attachments:
09_1109 - Letter to Salazar and Jarvis on Guns Regulation.pdf

Minutes from December 2009 Executive Council Meeting

Minutes / CNPSR Executive Council Meeting, December 1 - 3, 2009

Minutes
Executive Council Meeting
Coalition of NPS Retirees

December 1-3, 2009
8:30 AM MST each day
“Patagonia” Room – NAFRI, Tucson, Arizona
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Call to Order (Wade)

8:32 am

Welcome from Merrie Johnson, Director, NAFRI

Roll Call (Wade):

• In attendance
o Phil Brueck
o Anne Castellina
o Don Castleberry
o Maureen Finnerty
o Jake Hoogland
o Becky Mills (1:30pm Tuesday to 2:30pm Thursday)
o Doug Morris
o Rick Smith
o Bill Wade

• Absent:
o Rob Arnberger
o JT Reynolds
o Pat Tiller

• Guests:
o Jon Catton

Attachments:
09_1204 - Minutes EC meeting - website version.doc

Newly Approved Goals for NPS Science Program

The National Park Service has an extraordinary opportunity and challenge to advance science within the organization, and to expa

Dr. Gary E. Machlis is Science Advisor to the Director, National Park Service, and Professor of Conservation at the University of Idaho. Dr. Machlis has served as Interim Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Idaho, and been a visiting professor at Nanjing Technological College in China and at Yale University. Dr. Machlis has conducted studies in over 130 US National Parks as diverse as Everglades, the Statue of Liberty, and Yellowstone. Dr.

Attachments:
NPS Science Dialogue Intro.doc
NPS Science Dialogue Intro.doc

Letter to Yellowstone Superintendent Dated January 14, 2010

Less than two months ago, the National Park Service announced a critical effort to develop a long-term winter use plan worthy of

Executive Council:
• Robert Arnberger
• Anne Castellina
• Don Castleberry
• Maureen Finnerty
• Jake Hoogland
• Doug Morris
• J. T. Reynolds
• Pat Tiller
• Rick Smith
• Bill Wade
Voices of Experience – Advocating Protection of America’s National Park System

SENT VIA EMAIL

January 14, 2010

Superintendent
Yellowstone National Park
P.O. Box 168
Yellowstone National Park, WY
82190-0168

Dear Superintendent Lewis:

Attachments:
10_0114 - Letter to YELL Supt re winter use access4.doc

Coalition Executive Council, p. 3

JT Reynolds, cont. from previous page