California Military Air Station to become shoreline park

THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE PLANS TO CONVERT CRISSY FIELD, a former military air station at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, into a shoreline park. The area will eventually boast a bayside promenade, an expanded beach, restored tidal marsh, trails, bike paths and picnic areas.

* SENATOR BEN NIGHTHORSE CAMPBELL (R-COLORADO) HAS INTRODUCED A BILL that would allow national parks to charge fees for commercial use of parks in films, TV shows, printed material and advertisements.

* SNOWMOBILES AND ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLES Es will be banned from 2,700 acres of land recently acquired by Baxter State Park in Maine. Motor vehicle access will be limited.

* AN INCREASE IN THE RACCOON POPULATION is leading to an outbreak of human rabies in Florida. The raccoon rabies virus also is spreading from the Eastern seaboard into Ohio and Indiana.

* THE WORLD MONUMENTS FUND HAS RECOMMENDED THAT SOUTH PASS, WYOMING, which was a major landmark on the Oregon Trail, be given National Historic Landmark designation to preserve it from future development.-BEVERLY EDWARDS

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