Voices of Experience, Supporting the Protection of America's National Parks
CNPSR member Warren Bielenberg recently served as PIO (public information officer) on the NPS spill response. Here, Warren (in blue shirt) watches in July as a turtle team moves loggerhead eggs and a few hatchlings from their nest on Gulf Island to a waiting FedEx truck -- the first leg of their journey to safety at Cape Canaveral N.S. About a dozen CNPSR members have worked on the NPS incident response team. For more about the ongoing NPS response, visit nps.gov/guis or nps.gov/aboutus/oil-spill-response.htm or TWEET SouthEastNPS.
About the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees (CNPSR): In May, 2003, at a press conference in Washington, DC, three former high-ranking National Park Service (NPS) employees spoke out against actions being taken by political leaders that were having detrimental effects on the National Park System. At the same time, a letter voicing similar concerns and signed by twenty NPS retirees was sent to President Bush and Interior Secretary Norton.
Since that time, almost 800 former NPS employees, many of whom were senior managers of the agency, have joined the Coalition to support the mission of the National Park System and the employees who carry it out. We have developed this website as a way to voice our concerns about legislative and policy decisions that we feel diminish the values and purposes for which the National Park System was established, and to help educate the American public about those values and purposes.
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[ ] On July 30, 2010, the Coalition submitted comments on the NPS's Blackstone River Valley Special Resource Study.
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Letter Supporting Deepwater Drilling Moratorium , Jul 28, 2010[ ] We believe that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s announcement of a temporary moratorium on deep-water drilling . . .
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Congratulations to John Wessels, New RD of IMR, Jul 27, 2010[ ] On July 26, 2010, Director Jon Jarvis announced that he had appointed John Wessels, currently serving in the Intermountain Regio
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Letter Congratulating New RD for Pacific West Region, Jul 9, 2010[ ] On July 8, the National Park Service announced the appointment of a new regional director for the Pacific West Region, Christine
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[ ] The Coalition recently commented on an access issue at Ft. Bowie National Historic Site.
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Continuing Opposition to Oyster Farm Permit - Pt. Reyes, Jun 17, 2010[ ] On June 16, 2010, the Coalition expressed its continuing opposition to an extension of the oyster farm permit at Pt. Reyes Natio
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[ ] The Coalition recently commended Director Jarvis on his appointment of Stephanie Toothman as the Service's Associate Director of
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CNPSR Testimony on the Next Century of the NPS, May 27, 2010[ ] Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee, my name is Jerry L. Rogers and I am honored to be invited to present testimony tod



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