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MOUNT WASHINGTON â Itâs likely an admission fee will be charged by next summer to visitors entering the Sherman Adams Building located at the summit of Mount Washington.
That was the consensus reached at the virtual meeting held last Friday by the Mt. Washington Advisory Commission, made up of a dozen Mount Washington State Park stakeholders and chaired by state Sen. Jeb Bradley (R-Wolfeboro).
No one disagreed with the conclusion that revenues generated by selling hot dogs and gift shop items cannot cover the cost of running the park.
The commission had last met Aug. 28 in Franconia Notch. Capital projects discussed included a new sewage treatment plant and disposal system.
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It’s been nearly five years since the chilly February morning when I shuffled into the back of a conference room at Salt Lake City’s convention center to watch the federal government auction off oil and gas drilling rights for up to 45,000 acres of public lands. There were nearly 100 protesters in the room too, part of a growing campaign urging the Obama administration to stop allowing new fossil fuel extraction on lands and waters owned by the American people.
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Interstate 70, temporarily closed by the Grizzly Creek fire, and the Colorado River in Glenwood Springs on Friday, Aug. 21, 2020.
Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet introduced a conservation bill Tuesday that he says will spur economic growth.
The Outdoor Restoration Force Act would set up a $60 billion fund to support a range of projects from wildfire mitigation to river clean-ups. The money would be split, $20 billion for state and local governments and $40 billion for federal efforts at the Departments of Agriculture and the Interior, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency.
In a statement, Bennet said the bill would boost local economies by making it possible for governments “to hire individuals for projects that meet local needs –– whether that’s improving forest health, cleaning up abandoned mines, or removing invasive species.”
Congress Passed a Bipartisan Conservation Law. Then the Trump Administration Got in its Way
Republicans and Democrats together approved the Great American Outdoors Act, but the administration has ignored planned projects and imposed rules restricting spending.
December 16, 2020
The California Coastal National Monument started with 1,711 acres of donated land, then expanded with the help of funding from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Now it offers unique coastal habitat for marine-dependent wildlife and vegetation along the California coastline. Credit: David Ledig/Bureau of Land Management
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The partisanship poisoning Washington made it hard to imagine the sharply divided Congress coming together over anything in this year, let alone environmental legislation. And fallout from the pandemic made it seem even more unlikely that Democrats and Republicans could agree on something like spending hundreds of millions of dollars on parks and conservation