CRAIG HILL
Craig Hill is The News Tribune’s injury-prone Adventure writer. After eight years covering college football and basketball, he started writing about adventure sports in 2004. He writes about everything from mountaineering and cycling to skiing and camping. You can reach him at craig.hill@thenewstribune.com
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Jeffrey P. Mayor has been The News Tribune’s Adventure editor since 2003, and oversees our weekly Adventure section. His coverage focuses on fishing, hunting, Mount Rainier and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. You can reach him at jeff.mayor@thenewstribune.com
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The 1,200-mile Pacific Northwest Trail will be one of three new National Scenic Trails once the President signs H.R. 146, which passed the House today by a vote of 285 to 140.
The other trails joining the system, managed by the National Park Service, are the 800-mile Arizona Trail; and (3) the 200-mile New England Trail. These are the first trails to earn the designation since 1983.
The Pacific Northwest Trail crosses three national parks and seven national forests as it runs from the Chief Mountain border crossing just east of Glacier National Park in Montana to the Pacific Ocean at Cape Alava on the Olympic Peninsula.
Here in Washington, the trail winds through the Pasayten Wilderness, North Cascades, cross Fidalgo and Whidbey islands, Olympic Mountains and ends on the wild coast.
Today’s vote also gives Lakewood resident Bart Smith a new challenge. Last October he completed a 16-year adventure, hiking all 16,500 miles of the National Scenic Trail system. Smith knew these three trails might be added to the system, and said at the time he would hike them if they were approved.
Click here to learn more about the Pacific Northwest Trail and the association.
I came across this on the National Park Service's Web site, regarding the recent press release involving use of lead fishing and hunting equipment in national parks.
Here is the release:
On March 10, 2009, the National Park Service distributed a press release entitled “National Park Service Gets the Lead Out.” Due to some confusion over its contents, the agency provides the following clarifying statements:
1. Nothing has changed for the public. We are simply announcing the NPS goal of eliminating lead from NPS activities to protect human and wildlife health.
2. We will work to clean our own house by altering NPS resource management activities. In 2009, we will transition to non-lead ammunition in culling operations and dispatching sick or wounded animals.
3. In the future, we will look at the potential for transitioning to non-lead ammunition and non-lead fishing tackle for recreational use by working with our policy office and appropriate stakeholders/groups. This will require public involvement, comment, and review.
