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The article offers information on the U.S. National Park Service. David Barna, chief spokesman of the agency, says that the service has lost around $700,000 to $1 million in revenue per free day. It mentions that park attendance has been increasing after it dropped in the 1990s with 266 million visitors in 2003. Furthermore, the park service released a list of free days in 2013.

This article reports on the reaction of businesses to the plan of the U.S. National Park Service to limit motorized access to the Yellowstone National Park.

The Obama administration says it will not appeal a court ruling that prohibits carrying loaded guns in national parks and wildlife refuges. Last month, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of Federal District Court here struck down the policy allowing guns in parks. She called the rule, issued in the last days of the Bush administration, severely flawed and said officials had failed to evaluate its possible environmental impact, as required. She set a deadline of Monday for the Interior Department to indicate its likely response. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the hope of advocates of the national parks that the U.S. new administration may create a smaller version of the 1930s-era Civilian Conservation Corps. to help restore the badly eroded infrastructure of the system.

The Obama administration has chosen to defend a bad rule rushed through during former President George W. Bush's final days in office that allows concealed, loaded firearms in national parks and wildlife refuges. The rule is a gift to the gun lobby. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has asked for a 90-day internal assessment of the rule's environmental impacts, offering some hope that the administration might later reverse an unwise policy. But for now, the administration's operating position is contained in a Justice Department brief filed last Friday. It seeks to block a preliminary injunction of the rule sought by gun control and environmental groups. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A new snowmobile plan for Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks would cut by almost 40 percent the number of machines allowed into the parks daily. Parks officials had proposed allowing up to 605 snowmobiles a day in the two parks, but Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of Federal District Court rejected that plan in September, agreeing with environmental groups that filed suit that it would increase air pollution, disturb wildlife and cause too much noise. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the closure of all backcountry areas in Salt Lake City, Utah to visitors on July 19, 2007 by officials of Zion National Park in Utah following wildfires in the park. At least eight wildfires, started by lightning in the week beginning July 16, 2007, said Erik DeGroat, spokesman of the park, have burned about 8,000 acres of the park.

The article focuses on the release of the finalized management policy of the U.S. National Park Service to administer the daily operation of the national parks.

The article comments on the decision of the Interior Department to extend more time for public commentaries on the National Park Service's controversial plan to reform management policies for the national parks in the U.S.

The article focuses on issues concerning the final draft revisions to the documents governing the management of the national park system in the U.S.

This article presents information on the congressional reaction to the new management policy for national parks in the U.S.

Editorial. Assesses the performance of U.S. President George W. Bush in tackling the huge repair backlog in the national parks estimated at $4.9 billion when he came to office.

Contends that the decision by the United States Department of the Interior to ban the use of snowmobiles in National Parks is sound and reasonable.

Opinion. Comments on the closing of the Grand Canyon by the government in Arizona. Letter from a supposed visitor of the park; Accepting state personnel to manage national parks; Accepting donated funds or state personnel from states to keep national parks open.