by Jeff Ruch | Jun 2, 2020
This past week, Rocky Mountain National Park, the park with the third highest level of visitors in 2019, stumbled towards reforms with something extraordinary. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it adopted a reservation or timed-entry system to prevent overcrowding...
by Kirsten Stade | Jun 1, 2020
For Immediate Release: Monday, June 1, 2020 Contact: Jeff Ruch (510) 213-7028; Kirsten Stade kstade@peer.org Disney World Will Embrace Public Health Measures NPS Eschews Washington, DC — Under orders from President Trump to reopen, many national parks are...
by Tim Whitehouse | May 19, 2020
On May 11, PEER and Western Watersheds Project sued the Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, alleging that Bernhardt has used temporary appointees to lead the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management in violation of federal laws and the U.S....
by Kirsten Stade | May 11, 2020
For Immediate Release: Monday, May 11, 2020 Contacts: Peter Jenkins, PEER (202) 265-4189 pjenkins@peer.org; Erik Molvar, Western Watersheds Project (307) 399-7910, emolvar@westernwatersheds.org; Kirsten Stade, PEER kstade@peer.org Lawsuit Seeks Ouster of Park...
by Jeff Ruch | May 7, 2020
Last Sunday, Interior Secretary Bernhardt ordered the Lincoln Memorial closed to the public so that President Trump could “communicate an official message to the American people” via (what else?) Fox News on the current pandemic. In his curious “Record of...
by Susan Sargent | May 1, 2020
For Immediate Release: Friday, May 1, 2020 Contact: Paula Dinerstein (301) 580-4020 Contact: Susan Sargent (202) 265-7337 Within Two Years 23 National Parks Must Adopt Overflight Management Plans Washington, DC — Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the...
