[at-l] National Parks and Snowmobiles

[mark.lerch@quest.com (Mark Lerch)]

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> What location has the highest consistent "smog" levels of any place in an
Eastern-Seaboard state?

Top of Mt. Mitchell?  Whenever I'm up there it smells like vinegar.


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From: Russ E. Boltz [mailto:russboltz@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 6:03 PM
To: at-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: [at-l] National Parks and Snowmobiles


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Cliff Haynes makes some good points about hikers, lodges, roads and the
like. Unfortunately, he is TOO correct.

-- Backcountry human waste IS a problem. That's why the NPS is increasing
the use of composting privies, and encouraging (and, in some parks such as
the Grand Canyon Natl Pk river trips REQUIRING) that human waste be packed
out. When I took my Scout Troop to do Isle Royale National Park, we carried
"honey sacks", which are a growing business, that permitted us to "pack it
in and pack it out".  We're not alone, either.
-- Development IS being reduced. A major village in Yosemite NP has been
"erased", and other parks recognize that buildings and development ARE
harmful. More and more National Parks (and not just in Alaska) are being
developed on a "no buildings" basis.
-- Roads ARE being closed, and that was one of the major "wins" of the
environmental movement in the waning days of the Clinton Administration,
when road construction in National Forests was largely suspended. (Did you
know that the National Forest system has more road mileage than the rest of
the United States combined?)
-- Some parts of the National Park system ARE so fragile that, as Cliff
sarcastically notes, "in order to preserve wildlife and places for the
future, it is necessary to keep people out entirely" although he wants,
apparently, free access to ALL parts of parks so they can be "shared". I
don't have a lot of problem staying the hell out of the south end of North
Manitou Island in Sleeping Bear National Seashore, so that the Piping Plover
can breed each year. My presence (and probably Cliff's) would scare a lot of
birds sterile!

Try this out for size, folks: What location has the highest consistent
"smog" levels of any place in an Eastern-Seaboard state?





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