Salon.com > Pinnacles National Park http://www.salon.com Sun, 19 May 2013 03:14:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Oil drilling could be new nadir for Pinnacles National Park http://www.salon.com/2013/03/03/oil_drilling_could_be_new_nadir_for_pinnacles_national_park_partner/ http://www.salon.com/2013/03/03/oil_drilling_could_be_new_nadir_for_pinnacles_national_park_partner/#comments Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13216671 Earth Island Journal On Monday, February 11, hundreds of people — including Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Congressman Sam Farr — gathered together to celebrate the creation of the United States’ newest national park, Pinnacles. An unusual outcropping of volcanic rock spires rising from the oak savannah of the California Coast Range, Pinnacles is a 27,000-acre wildlands preserve that is home to foxes, badgers, eagles and an estimated 31 California condors, a species once on the edge of extinction that has now rebounded thanks to a decades-long recovery campaign.

“Our parks offer opportunities to enjoy outdoor recreation with family and friends," Secretary Salazar said at the ceremony, reading from a letter from President Obama, "and they provide a safe and accessible setting to appreciate the bounty of our land … Pinnacles National Park is now among these cherished sites."

Continue Reading...

]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/03/03/oil_drilling_could_be_new_nadir_for_pinnacles_national_park_partner/feed/ 9