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Long To-Do List for New U.S. Parks Chief

On October 31, 2009 By

My view: Looks like the right people dislike the new chief-

Todd Wilkinson has a good article on Jarvis, the new director of the National Parks System.  Long To-Do List for New U.S. Parks Chief. By Todd Wilkinson, Christian Science Monitor. This is the first consolidated article on Jarvis I have seen.

As a […]

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Senators Grill Obama's Nominee for National Park Service Director

On July 31, 2009 By

Jarvis generally gives answers anti-conservation senators didn’t want to hear-

I think we will probably have a good Park Service Director. I suspect there may be Republican blocking tactics in the Senate like holds, but he will eventually become Park Service Director.

Senators Grill Obama’s Nominee for National Park Service Director. By Noell Straub […]

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Jon Jarvis: A new voice for the national parks

On July 15, 2009 By

New York Times very positive on the new Director of the National Park Service-

When President Obama nominated Jon Jarvis to head the Park Service, I was not familiar with him.

However, the New York Times thinks Jarvis is the “best news [they] have heard in the past nine years about the national parks”

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey