The Big Picture: An Editorial – By Glynn Wilson – A proposal within the U.S. Forest Service to ban fracking in all national forests should be adopted by the Obama administration and codified into American law by Congress to make it permanent. After a plan to open up the Talladega National Forest to gas drilling…
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar designated three National Water Trails in Alabama, Georgia and Missouri on Monday, demonstrating the Obama’s administration’s commitment to work with state and local partners to increase water-based outdoor recreation, encourage community stewardship and promote tourism that fuels local economies. “Restoring our nation’s rivers…
Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television’s Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85. Family spokeswoman Sao Anash said Parker, who was also TV’s Daniel Boone, died at his Santa Ynez Valley home on the 84th birthday of his wife of 50…
The Smokies get a little less wild with this sad news out of tiny Parrottsville, Tennessee, located just north of Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Cherokee National Forest. This just in from Backpacker Magazine: Moonshine and Star Charts: Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton, 62, a famous moonshiner known for his premium “booger” style of corn…
