A lawsuit challenging the fees users must pay on recreation.gov to reserve campsites, climb mountains, and paddle rivers has been withdrawn without explanation by the plaintffs.
Months after they wrote Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack regarding a private company being paid tens of millions of dollars to manage the website that serves as a national portal for accessing recreational activities on federal lands, Sens. Chuck Grassley and John Barasso are still waiting for answers.
In the wake of articles by the National Parks Traveler and the Wall Street Journal, two U.S. senators are wondering why a private company is being paid millions of dollars to manage the website that serves as a national portal for accessing recreational activities on federal lands.
At first glance, most desert landscapes appear uniformly parched and bland. It’s easy to overlook cryptobiotic soil, or biocrust: the blackened “skin” that forms.