Sentences with phrase «of wilderness parks»

Full of wilderness parks and national forests, Yavapai County has a lot of beautiful things to see.

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Causes vary: Lightning is a frequent cause of wildfires in remote wilderness areas, but the National Parks Service says that up to 90 percent of wildfires in the United States are caused by people.

The groups calling on the province to establish Grand and Goose Island provincial parks are Pine Creek First Nation, Sapotaweyak Cree Nation, the Manitoba chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS), and the Wilderness Commiparks are Pine Creek First Nation, Sapotaweyak Cree Nation, the Manitoba chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS), and the Wilderness CommiParks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS), and the Wilderness Committee.

Robinson began his career working as a park ranger in wilderness areas throughout British Columbia, where he was decorated for bravery by the Governor General of Canada.

Your train ride passes through parts of this rugged wilderness, and reveals the unspoiled natural beauty of the world's southernmost national park.

Sirs: If a wilderness advocate prefers a trackless domain to the wreckage of easy access, who's to hand him the tired accolade, «Park Avenue conservationist»?

Wecan look to the west and south to the farthest boundaries of Yellowstone andGrand Teton National Park, and even beyond into the wide buffer of PrimitiveAreas, Wilderness Areas and National Forests.

I admit that the problems in the roaded areas of our national parks are serious, but problems in the boondocks are equally serious, and chopping up the wilderness areas that are left isn't going to solve anything.

Wilderness Park (12 acres) and Wilderness Park South (2 acres) are two of the Park District's most scenic locations.

The Adirondack Council is a key advocate before the New York state legislature and state agencies to ensure the protection of the wilderness and communities of the 6 million - acre Adirondack Park.

«DEC never intended, nor agreed, that Iowa Pacific should turn this corridor in the pristine, forever wild wilderness of the Adirondack Park into a commercial disposal site,» said the DEC in a statement.

The Adirondack Park's leading environmental groups and local government officials supported the Adirondack Park Agency's decision to classify the 20,530 - acre Boreas Ponds tract as a mix of Wilderness and Wild Forest.

An outgoing member of the Adirondack Park Agency board has blasted Cuomo for strong - arming the board, citing pressure from his office behind a recent decision to open up some Adirondack wilderness to mechanized vehicles and mountain bikes.

The Adirondack Park Agency board will soon lose its strongest defender of wilderness: Dick Booth does not intend to serve another term.

I am also thrilled to see a Comptroller who has a commitment to our environment be it for electric vehicles, cutting down on pollution and safeguarding the monies used to preserve our state parks and other areas of wilderness in our great Borough and State.

«The classification of the Boreas Ponds as Wilderness and the expansion of High Peaks Wilderness Area marks a great day for the Forest Preserve and Adirondack Park,» said Protect the Adirondacks» Executive Director Peter Bauer in a statement.

Monroe also pushed back against the council's determination that the Adirondack Park will be threatened if portions of the Boreas Ponds Tract may be classified as something other than Wilderness.

From its inception in 1892, the six - million - acre (24,000 km ²) Adirondack Park, which is larger than Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Great Smoky, and Everglades National Parks combined, has been a battleground between those who would preserve wilderness and proponents of the development rights of property owners.

Wilderness advocates also said the Adirondack Park hosts plenty of places where snowmobiling and motorized recreation is available — including within close proximity to Boreas.

RAY BROOK The Adirondack Park Agency formally approved the classification of the Boreas Ponds Tract on Friday, creating the largest Wilderness area in the northeastern United States.

As the governor signed the documents, a coalition of environmental groups released a report that finds lands designated wilderness are an economic driver for the Park.

Full Wilderness advocates also shot down arguments of the permanence of the structures, saying there are already signs that nature is reclaiming them, and that much of the now - protected areas of the Adirondack Park were once shaped by man.

A Window on Eternity chronicles Wilson's exploration of the recovering wilderness (now a national park) by helicopter, in an elephant - proof Jeep, and even on hands and knees.

The National Wilderness Preservation System has 680 chunks of such terrain, varying in size from a six - acre island in Florida to a nine - million - acre park in Alaska.

When I arrive at the Crags Campground, having traveled through Forest Service land to the official border of the wilderness, I am dismayed to see a dozen cars parked at the trailhead.

Death Valley National Park Explore 3 million acres of wilderness, including the Badwater Basin salt flats, the lowest elevation in North America at 282 feet below sea level.

SKYLINE WILDERNESS PARK is one of the few places where you can enjoy the outdoors amid all the privately owned vineyards and estates dotting Napa's beautiful countryside.

In 63 percent of America's protected places — including parks, monuments and designated wilderness areas — sounds made by human activity are doubling the volume of background noise.

But regulators have largely ignored noise in parks, wilderness, and other protected areas, which cover 14 % of the country.

John Muir In Martinez, California, visit the Muir family home and see the «scribble den» where the father of national parks formulated his influential arguments for wilderness preservation.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — State Highway 14 cuts a tightly winding channel through the canyons of the Cache la Poudre Wilderness, a section of national forest in this state's northwest corner and the site of last year's High Park fire.

The mountain landscapes of the American West are rich in fossil fuels, timber, fish, wildlife, and natural beauty, and host some the largest and most famous national parks, monuments, and protected wilderness.

When National Park Service scientists Lowell Sumner and George Collins visited the Brooks Range mountains in the early 1950s, they were struck by the remoteness of the wilderness of northeastern Alaska.

That would seem to leave 62 percent on the table for expanded human consumption but the vast majority of this biomass appears to be not harvestable because it includes root growth below ground and biomass production on lands in parks or wilderness areas that are either protected or inaccessible.

And then whether it's a couple of times a year, you wan na get exposed to even bigger sources of nature, and then at the very tip top of the pyramid, it's like, you know, National Parks and massive places where you're just completely in undomesticated wilderness and that's sort of the top of the food chain.

Glacier - clad peaks, virgin forests, vast turquoise lakes, and sub-alpine meadows, North Cascades National Park is a gem of a wilderness — one that is often overlooked by tourists and revered by rugged...

I rock climb, backpack, train dogs, hike and mountaineer in the wilderness in and out of Yosemite National Park, it is right in my back yard.

Nature enthusiasts will find captivating videos from the National Parks Service, Parks Canada and thousands of additional hours of great TV content that celebrates the natural wilderness.

An expedition into the unspoiled wilderness of Utah's Zion National Park goes horribly wrong when your caravan is ambushed by a tribal raiding band.

Especially well contrived are the climactic scenes in the desert of the Joshua Tree National Park, east of Los Angeles, where Billy and Hans, as self - appointed collaborators, drag a reluctant Marty, tempting him into the wilderness.

Multimedia presentations, impassioned lectures, in - class study and discussion, video, and audio are all great ways to complement the wilderness experience, but the difference between walking through a park and learning about one through media is the difference between looking at a photograph of a flower and smelling one.

Whether you're setting out on a historical - landmark tour or on a wilderness expedition (or something in between — many lakes and creeks are only steps away from a parking area), you'll find the East Side of the Sierra Nevada an experience waiting to happen.

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If so, this is the right one of the used Jeeps offered at this dealership that will ensure you can enjoy the wilderness around Tinley Park, IL.

Or heading up to Wilderness Park with the kids for an overnight camping trip, all your gear neatly stowed in the back of a GLE SUV.

Husband and wife Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis live in a neighborhood in Forest Park, a 5000 acre northwestern wilderness on the edge of Portland, Oregon.

Most people don't realize it, but nearly all of the National Park is a harsh and terrifying wilderness.

According to NASAR, the National Association For Search And Rescue, SAR dogs and their handlers work as volunteers under the direction of law enforcement and emergency service agencies to help locate children and elderly people lost in parks or in neighborhoods with lots of shrubbery; hikers and hunters lost in the wilderness; train and plane - wreck victims and those missing after...

- Library Journal «Those prepared to slog through the blizzard of poetry used to convey clues will be rewarded by a gripping climax in the snowy wilderness of Ontario's Algonquin Park.»

An FP executive named Gene Park has become a minor celebrity because of media accounts that have him as a «Voice in the Wilderness,» decrying abusively structured mortgage credit.