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National Parks Threats Yield Political Watch List; Group Warns of Growing Dangers to National Parks
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U.S. Newswire
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March 13, 2003
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WASHINGTON, March 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The National Parks
Conservation Association (NPCA) today released a "National Parks
Watch List for 2003" that calls attention to upcoming decisions by
the Bush administration and Congress that will harm the health,
integrity, and future of America's National Park System. The Watch
List also outlines potential solutions.
"Because we have observed a disturbing trend of political actions
and inactions that jeopardize national parks, we have created this
2003 Watch List to describe the most far-reaching threats to the
parks," Thomas Kiernan, NPCA president, said. "The decisions by this
administration in the last several months are damaging to the ...