Drop-in visitation at many national parks dispel overcrowding myths

THE DECLINING VISITATION AT MANY MAJOR PARKS-particularly those in the Southwest-is attributed to negative publicity and global economic woes.

A YEAR AFTER 11 WOLVES WERE REINTRODUCED TO THE WILD IN ARIZONA, five are dead, five were recaptured and one is missing.

MARCH 2, 1999, MARKS THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY of the establishment of Mount Rainier as the nation's fifth national park.

THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT IS STUDYING FIVE MANAGEMENT ALTERNATIVES to carve the 1.9-million-acre Staircase-Escalante National Monument into as many as six different zones with specific uses.

PRESSURE FROM ENVIRONMENTALISTS TO PROVIDE PROTECTION for the elusive Canada lynx has raised concerns among loggers, hunters and skiers that habitat protection for the rarely seen cat will restrict land use.

LANDOWNERS NEAR EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK are protesting plans by the South Florida Water Management District to purchase privately owned land in order to restore the region's natural water flow.

PLANS BY THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION to widen and pave 71 secondary roads that intersect and cross the Blue Ridge Parkway are meeting opposition from those who fear negative impact on the parkway.

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