Bush administration dismantling environmental rules Nov 30, 2008
An additional 360,000 acres - including large swaths of public land near Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park in Utah and Dinosaur National Monument on the border of Utah and Colorado - were opened to oil drilling. Exempted large factory farms and mountaintop mining operations from parts of the Clean Water Act. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Government backs off drilling near national parks Nov 26, 2008
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced its decision late Tuesday after negotiations with National Park Service officials who objected to noise, lights and air pollution near Arches National Park, Dinosaur National Monument and Canyonlands National Park, all in Utah. Some of those parcels were within 1. (Anchorage Daily News)
Park Service asking BLM to back off on drilling Nov 25, 2008
Denver-based regional Park Service director Mike Snyder is trying to stop the auction of 50,000 acres of drilling parcels on or near the borders of Arches National Park, Dinosaur National Monument and Canyonlands National Park ... Dinosaur National Monument. (Yahoo News)
BLM pulls drilling parcel from Utah town Nov 21, 2008
Sierra also said she was taking another look at oil-and-gas parcels the BLM is offering alongside or within view of Arches National Park and two other redrock national areas in Utah: Dinosaur National Monument and Canyonlands National Park. The proposed sale of those parcels angered the National Park Service, which has demanded they be pulled from an auction set for Dec. 19. (Yahoo News)
U.S. expands Utah oil and gas leasing Nov 8, 2008
National Park Service officials say that the decision to open lands close to Arches National Park and Dinosaur National Monument and within eyeshot of Canyonlands National Park was made without the kind of consultation that had previously been routine. The inclusion of the new lease tracts angered environmental groups, which were already critical of the bureau's original lease proposal, made public this fall, because they said it could lead to industrial activity in empty areas of the state,... (International Herald Tribune)
Utah one of world's best spots for dinosaurs Oct 25, 2008
Utah Field House of Natural History: In northeastern Utah, the visitors' center at Dinosaur National Monument in Jensen is one of the state's premier fossil viewing sites. Unfortunately, the center was closed indefinitely in 2006. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
LETTERS: The Californian, Aug. 20, 2008 Aug 21, 2008
After which he said: "Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists -- whether through design or stupidity, I do not know -- as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms. Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups. John the Baptist wrote on Aug 20, 2008 10:36 AM:to Gail Scott: See my response to Rick Kellogg. All you're doing is... (North County Times)
'Major' dinosaur find in Utah Jun 18, 2008
The fossilized dinosaurs are from the same late Jurassic period as those at Dinosaur National Monument, which straddles the Utah-Colorado state line, and the Cleveland-Lloyd quarry near Price. It could be a decade or so before the full importance of the Hanksville quarry is known, Foss said. (AZCentral -- News)
Rafting fans can expect quite a rush this year May 14, 2008
Its trips on the Green River through the Gates of Lodore in Dinosaur National Monument, which straddles Utah and Colorado, were more than 88 percent full for the year by May 1, and its Grand Canyon rafting trips were sold out. While all this water is good news for boaters and floaters, there is a downside. (Boston Globe)
Hazards found in parks, schools run by Interior Dept. May 3, 2008
Auditors also determined that Yellowstone National Park water systems are significantly deteriorating and that the now-closed Dinosaur National Monument was "literally falling apart" atop shifting soil in Colorado, putting irreplaceable fossils at risk. At Grand Teton National Park, a headquarters building on an earthquake fault is not built to seismic codes. (Boston Globe)
New Glacier chief at home in the West Mar 26, 2008
He later was named associate to the NPS deputy director in Washington, D.C. He has held a number of superintendent positions at Park Service units, including Dinosaur National Monument in Utah and Colorado, Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming, Knife River Indian Villages in North Dakota, and Hovenweep National Monument in Utah and Colorado. Cartwright also served as acting superintendent at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico and Natural Bridges. (Missoulian, MT)
SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE NEWS BUDGET Feb 13, 2008
DINOSAURPARK (Loomis, Salt Lake Tribune) -- Dinosaur National Monument still has the namesake fossils, but the park in Utah and Colorado is cutting its caretaking staff to the bone. 450. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Life afloat - Missoula trio finds adventure during 1,400-mile expedition to survey changing face of the Colorado River Jan 21, 2008
Nothing compares to the adventure of Lodore Canyon in Dinosaur National Monument, a tight section of muddy whitewater that cut its way down as the mountains uplifted on either side, creating 3,000-foot cliffs. Once in the canyon, there is but one way out: down through Disaster Falls, Triplet and Hell s Half Mile. (Missoulian, MT)
VALLEY FEVER: INFECTION HITS CALIFORNIA PRISON HARD... Dec 30, 2007
The disease has infected archaeologists digging at the Dinosaur National Monument in Utah and dogs that have inhaled the spores while sniffing for illegal drugs along the Mexican border. In most cases, the infection starts in the lungs and is usually handled by the body without permanent damage. (The Drudge Report)
National park sights featured on White House ornaments Dec 21, 2007
Lorraine Chure painted a dinosaur, a peregrine falcon, fossils, petroglyphs, a river rafter on the Green River and an image of Split Mountain for the Dinosaur National Monument ornament. Other National Park Service sites in Utah submitting ornaments include Arches National Park and Natural Bridges National Monument. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
State Wants Vermillion Basin Clear Of Drilling Jul 5, 2007
State officials want to keep oil and gas development out of the uninhabited 77,000-acre Vermillion Basin near Dinosaur National Monument. In a letter sent this week to the Bureau of Land Management, Colorado Department of Natural Resources Director Harris Sherman asks that oil and gas leases not be granted there over the 20-year life of the federal agency's management plan. (CBS 4, CO)
