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2019-06-03 Muldoon's Misconduct & the NPS

2019-06-03 Muldoon’s Misconduct & the NPS

“Did Muldoon herself follow the safety guidelines she was appointed to implement?  Muldoon’s actual track record is a long list and large collection of safety violations, safety problems and safety misconduct.”

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  “Muldoon’s re-appointment to the NPS Safety Leadership Council hardly inspires confidence inside NPS or for visitors to our National Parks.  Under her…

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 2017-06-29 Point Reyes Light: Drakes Estero project sparked investigations

 2017-06-29 Point Reyes Light: Drakes Estero project sparked investigations

This is another chapter in the never-ending story of National Park Service scandals at Drakes Estero, Point Reyes National Seashore which reveals NPS “threatening” emails, exposes NPS “pressure” against another Federal Agency, unmasks NPS “retaliation” against a NPS contractor-employee, delineates multiple NPS and Contractor “safety violations” and uncovers NPS “toxic waste mismanagement.”

  …hun…

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08-05-16: NPT Anti-Ranch Activists Use Familiar Playbook

08-05-16: NPT Anti-Ranch Activists Use Familiar Playbook

Op-Ed | Anti-Ranch Activists Use Familiar Playbook

By NPT Staff on August 5th, 2016

Tule elk at Point Reyes National Seashore/NPS

Editor’s note: The following column was written by Sarah Rolph, who is writing a book on how an oyster farm lost its lease at Point Reyes National Seashore in California.

To those of us who were close observers of the dis-information war conducted against…

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8-1-16 Bipartisan request to NPS Jarvis : What Are You Doing About Sexual Harassment And Misconduct?

8-1-16 Bipartisan request to NPS Jarvis : What Are You Doing About Sexual Harassment And Misconduct?

National Parks Traveler Bipartisan Request To National Park Service: What Are You Doing About Sexual Harassment And Misconduct?

By Kurt Repanshek on August 1st, 2016

Concerned that the National Park Service is not taking adequate steps to root out sexual harassment and misconduct in the Service, members of Congress have asked National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis to provide three reports…

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08-01-16 Laura Watt's Book available now: The Paradox of Preservation: Wilderness & Working Landscapes at PRNS

08-01-16 Laura Watt’s Book available now: The Paradox of Preservation: Wilderness & Working Landscapes at PRNS

Available now at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520277082/ref=kinw_rke_rti_1

  The Paradox of Preservation: Wilderness and Working Landscapes at Point Reyes National SeashorePaperback– November 29, 2016

by

Laura Alice Watt (Author)

  Point Reyes National Seashore has a long history as a working landscape, with dairy and beef ranching, fishing, and oyster farming; yet, since…

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7-28-16 House Committee on Oversight demands unredacted reports re sexual harassment from NPS Dir Jon Jarvis

7-28-16 House Committee on Oversight demands unredacted reports re sexual harassment from NPS Dir Jon Jarvis

More on Jarvis.

  https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2016-07-28-JEC-EEC-CL-BL-to-Jarvis-NPS-Misconduct-Letter-due-8-11-REDACTED.pdf

  The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform just sent a bi-partisanletter to NPS Director Jarvis demanding certain specified unredacted reports and documents related to on-going sexual harassment issues and policies be submitted to…

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07-27-16 PEER: Jarvis Been Asked to Remain but #2, a woman, OUT

07-27-16 PEER: Jarvis Been Asked to Remain but #2, a woman, OUT

In the face of a rising chorus urging his firing, National Park Service (NPS) Director Jon Jarvis has been asked to remain through the end of the Obama term, according to meeting minutes posted today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Instead, the number two NPS official and highest-ranking female, Margaret (Peggy) O’Dell, will be leaving by the end of July.

In this its…

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07-04-16 SFExaminer: NPS protects the wilderness. But who will protect integrity — and women — from the Park Service?

07-04-16 SFExaminer: NPS protects the wilderness. But who will protect integrity — and women — from the Park Service?

This is the fundamental (ethics) problem with the Park Service — sexual harassment and other ethical violations are not viewed as serious problems by top managers. When reports of violations become public, the violators — especially if they’re higher ups — are allowed to either retire with full benefits or, like the Catholic Church’s pedophile priests, simply moved to a similar position at…

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07-01-16 Sen. Murkowski Urges Park Service to Hire Alaskans

07-01-16 Sen. Murkowski Urges Park Service to Hire Alaskans

“The Park Service is celebrating its 100th anniversary this August, and it saddens me to continue seeing reports of employee misconduct, mismanagement, and ethics violations—including the Director himself—coming out of the agency. Alaskans, and all Americans, love our National Parks. I will continue to work to ensure that their ethics and management issues, including these hiring practices in…

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07-02-16 Washington Post: Lawmakers charge Park Service chief oversees a culture of sexual harassment

07-02-16 Washington Post: Lawmakers charge Park Service chief oversees a culture of sexual harassment

CANAVERAL NATIONAL SEASHORE, Fla. — This secluded beach on a barrier island off the Atlantic coast is a sunbathers’ paradise of nesting sea turtles and wading shore birds in the shadow of the Kennedy Space Center.

But for rangers, visitor guides and many of the 50 employees here, working at this national park is anything but paradise.

Multiple female employees have been subjected to sexual…

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5-21-16 Petition to Fire NPS Dir Jon Jarvis

5-21-16 Petition to Fire NPS Dir Jon Jarvis

Click on the link below to sign the petition

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-national-park-service-director-jon-jarvis-we-deserve-director-who-will-uphold-agencys-integrity 

Fire National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis. We deserve a director who will uphold the agency’s integrity. | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.jshttps://ssl.goog…

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5-23-16 NPT Congressman Asks for NPS Dir Jarvis's Resignation

5-23-16 NPT Congressman Asks for NPS Dir Jarvis’s Resignation

National Parks Traveler UPDATED: Congressman Asks For National Park Service Director’s Resignation

  By Kurt Repanshek on June 23rd, 2016

President Obama has been asked to fire National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis if the director does not resign/NPS

Editor’s note: This updates the story to mention that a petition drive calling for Director Jarvis’ removal has been started.

National Park…

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5-23-16 E&E Daily: Lawmaker calls for Jarvis to resign

5-23-16 E&E Daily: Lawmaker calls for Jarvis to resign

Another congressman this morning joined the small band of lawmakers questioning whether Jonathan Jarvis should continue to lead the National Park Service. Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.) announced during a House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing that he had sent President Obama a letterlast week urging him to ask Jarvis to resign over the director’s decision to write an unauthorized book for an NPS…

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4-25-16 Marin Voice: Point Reyes lawsuit undermines Marin's progressive traditions

4-25-16 Marin Voice: Point Reyes lawsuit undermines Marin’s progressive traditions

Huey Johnson, and those who wish to ban ranching in Point Reyes National Seashore, are cherry-picking documents, rewriting history, gulling Marin, the courts and the public by redeploying the same tactics used against Lunny’s oyster farm: withhold and selectively edit not only laws and legislation but original documents they cite to justify their actions, then import and invent new data to suit.

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2006 First False claim published by NPS, staff scientist Dr. Sarah Allen, lead author

2006 First False claim published by NPS, staff scientist Dr. Sarah Allen, lead author

2006:  First false claim published by NPS. Point Reyes National Seashore (PRNS) staff scientist Dr. Sarah Allen, lead author of PRNS publication “Drakes Estero, A Sheltered Wilderness Estuary” reports oyster farm operations are harming the ecology of the estero and begins a campaign to shut down the historic operation. The agency has no evidence for these allegations.

The fraudulent Sheltered…

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4-26-16 savedrakesbay.com Errors, Omissions, and Distortions in "The Oyster War" book by Summer Brennan

4-26-16 savedrakesbay.com Errors, Omissions, and Distortions in “The Oyster War” book by Summer Brennan

http://savedrakesbay.com/core/oyster-war-list-of-errors-and-omissions/

Oyster War Error List

Page 1                  “a reporter covering the war between oysters and wilderness”

So far the Drakes Bay Oyster controversy has extended to 120 months. Brennan claims to have direct knowledge of the situation based on the 5 months she spent in West Marin in 2012, working for the Point…

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3-30-16 Bohemian.com: Lawsuit threatens future of cattle at PRNS

3-30-16 Bohemian.com: Lawsuit threatens future of cattle at PRNS

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