of the conservancy for cuyahoga national park and president of the national association of all the friends groups for the parks said and i quote, supporters of our national parks across the country are thrilled with this bill. addressing deferred maintenance will go a long way toward protecting historic and national resources at our parks. this bill makes sense. it will help make our national parks even better for the hundreds of millions of visitors every year who take in their beauty and their history. i urge the senate committee on energy and natural resources to approve this bill quickly. i know senator murkowski is a strong supporter of our parks and will be supportive of moving forward as chair of the committee. and i hope the full senate will vote on this legislation soon and vote on it now so that we can move forward quickly. we want to make the second hundred years of our national parks as magnificent and successful as the first hundred years has been. this bill is necessary to be able to do that. and i urge my colleagues to join me in supporting this legislation. thank you, mr. p

for over five years, the port, national park services and golden gate national parks conservancy haveeen collaborating -- collaborating to develop division and solidify the business terms that will enable the long-term alcatraz island embarkation sight with benefits for all stakeholders and 1.7 million visitors. these visitors bring in nearly $200 million to the city and total annual spending power. almost half of which is estimated to be spent in the vicinity of the embarkation si site. camille's, shopping and attractions. th.the conservancy has been a valuable partner to us and are making critical investments in this project along with their future concessionaire. we appreciate the rigourous approach the port commission and staff have taken to addressing issues that have arisen during the course of this multiyear process. site-mac site-mac -- the project team and port staff have continued to meet and work through the vessel and interpretive park cruise questions. regarding vessel size, both at the current and previous concessionaire used two borage passenger vessels for alcatraz ser

second, nobody is proposing to hunting in national park service, national parks. that's not under consideration. the caller exit point needs to be corrected lubin. fish and wildlife service and noaa fisheries on thursday did provoke some pretty significant regular changes to the endangered species act. the esa would remain in effect. they have et cetera controversy, more than the hunting regulations. the trump administration maintains through the fish and wildlife service that the esa needs to be updated. it was passed in 1973. the regulations have been oututf date for years. they are streamlining changing how critical habitat is designated whether costs are taken into consideration so on. like the hunting regulations the open to public comment and will get a lot of high profile commentary. >> host: and member of who was still in congress and is in congress in 1973 win the endangered endangered species act was enacted as don young from alaska. c-span satfr down with him and s what he had to say about the ac act. >> more so because we are small in number of people

obama administration plan, the obama administration imposed limits on certain hunting tactics, on national parks and alaska. lands in not parks, but preserves, the tactics include the use of bait, motorboats in dens, and other provisions. host: the reversal of the rolling back those restrictions and allowing those methods? guest: that's right. as we have been discussing, there is something dispute over how much of an impact it would have. host: while our bus was in alaska we spoke to bruce dale, with the alaska department of fish and dale -- fish and game, this is what he had to say about the common period. >> the ngos that support the national park service are in enormous machines that churns up gathering public input. and promoting input from certain groups and interest groups. and compared to the small number of people who live in alaska, especially the small number of rural users that are relying on these, the numbers of comments and the types of comments are only useful to a point. host: so they are hearing from people outside of alaska? .uest: by the scads and the official is right. the no

that would be like mining the grand canyon or chopping can redwood trees and redwood national park. it's a badve idea but with the public doesn't get up there to see the arctic polar bear and the great caribou herd, they think in terms of energy instead of a gift that will pass on to future generations. >> host: what role didid alaska play in the founding of the bull moose party? >> guest: very similar role because long story that we don't have that much number roosevelt after left the presidency 48 hours after leaving, he said mount olympus in washington state, part of olympic national park, went to africa for the smithsonian institute and while he was gone he left behind william howard taft is chief foerster, adaptive administrationon started getting sweetheart deals to corporations, what they called the guggenheim syndicate, today's exxon mobil or anglo-american corporation or shell, giving them these sweetheart deals, d4 stickam clearcutting clearcutting all areas and leaving it, really the raping, the beginning of the raping of the l coal land of alaska. one of his first speech

that wasn't the freshwater was blocked and couldn't reach the national park. years later the problem was addressed with the construction of these locks built with the help of the german k f w development bank and the german development agency. as gates had here that these guys can be what it does is imitate ebb and flow salt water and fresh water are combined here so it's a perfect habitat for fish to spawn in perfect and. it's a protected area because these are three flood basins. so it's a perfect spot for resting and breeding not only for this but also for birds. thanks to. the park authority has demarcated fishing zones and make sure the fishermen respect spawning seasons. for fresh water in the basin has helped revive the local fauna to. lotus's have begun thriving again. local women spend two to three hours a day in the water collecting seeds from the lotus stalks. then the. sort them shell and dry them and over a period of several weeks turn them into cous cous. i was after the dam was built until last year we couldn't harvest anything but now nature ha

to see more brown people represented in the national park service. we need to see more languageste repres more culture. >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by:

welcome to nairobi national park the only national park in the world the directly borders the city. if you're lucky you'll spot will to be giraffes and even the every loose of pride of lions. but looking at the land from the air you notice a different kind of creature the standard gauge railway. authorities say out of seven possible routes this was the best option what he established was at all those other possible routes one we're going to have a lot more impact on the park because we're going to acquire more land from the national park in excess of one hundred fifty. but what they took was an option of building a breach across the national building a bridge one hundred meter to pass. a bridge or five point eight kilometers the amount of land. on the national park is zero point one zero point five one of a nickel that is half an acre of land. but environmentalist accuse the kenyan government of not following due process before construction began. well it's review a sequence of very unfortunate events starting off really you could get very poorly planned and executed. plans for the

next up we're headed to a national park to experience nature in the purest form now this park about an hour's drive from the a story in capital tallinn house remnants which date back to the ice age it's slightly off the beaten path but that didn't stop us from packing our bags for a little adventure. is nearly always a fresh breeze blowing here. our national park some seventy kilometers east of the east indian capital the name means land of bay it's a place to relax and enjoy a natural paradise spanning nearly seven hundred fifty square kilometers with rambling forests and boulders left over from the last years of the ice age it's a popular destination for daytrippers from tallinn but it's been a national park for over forty five years. all of the typical forest types of estonia are represented here is both. the nature of front but nature. local traditions and very high culture. one cultural highlight is perms a man or a grand mansion in the heart of la. many visitors start their day trips here. to baroque estate and mansion were completed in seventeen eighty five they once belonged to

park. it is an issue because the pipeline affects both parts. the national registry rountree for piscataway national park was a boundary marker that was incomplete and did not include editions to the part that happened in 1999 and 2001. to be clear 1265 old landing road added in 2001. the latter is 40 feet from the proposed site and would suffer from the adverse effect of the compressor station. let me be clear. the dominion energy compressor station has never been approved by the mount vernon ladies association. there is no size of compressor we would be happy with being put in this rural area. we believe that this will industrial development that goes through without local approval. if it cannot be stopped now, how could it be stopped in the future? maybe dominion will not do anything in a year or two, as they promised, and they will not expand the site over time, but they have done that in other places. what will happen in 10 years, or 20 years? the ladies association has defended this view for 60 years and they intend to do it for 60 more and beyond. dom

all right coming back down to earth now we had next to last him a national park in estonia to experience nature in its purest form now this park is about an hour's drive from the estonian capital talent you know one thing that makes it remarkable are the natural remnants like stone formations which date back to the ice age and the park is slightly off the beaten path but that didn't stop us from going there for a little adventure. there's nearly always a fresh breeze blowing here. national park some seventy kilometers east of the capital the name means land of bain's it's a place to relax and enjoy a natural paradise spanning nearly seven hundred fifty square kilometers with rambling forests and boulders left over from the last years of the ice age it's a popular destination for daytrippers from tallinn and it's been a national park for over forty five years. all of the typical forest types of estonia are represented here is. the nature of front but nature. local traditions and very high end culture. one cultural highlight is perms a man or a grand mansion in the heart of la. many visito

via 2011 national park ser report shows visite s to parks arerwhelmingly white. with just one in ten visitors being hispanic, and just 7% african american. both under-representedred to their populations in the country. >> we should be concerned because something is there keeping usrom attending in the same numbers as the rest of the population. >> reporter: xitlaly reyes works with latino outdoors, which is >> there is definitely maybe ano messaggetting across that that is their park that they can enjoy it and maybe that issue i think we have there. >> reporter: diversity is a big issue for the national park service, their goal is to increase diversity of visitors and bring more people from backgrounds to places like the grand canyon, but they're also trying to increase the diversity of their own staff, hoping that helps to bring more people to the parks. >> we need to do a lot of stuff within our park as well and that's you know everything from making sure the staff looks lik erican public making sure that there's visibility in publications.ep >>ter: vanessa cej

heart of the issue isr that congress ponsible for funding the operations and maintenance of our national parks. funding for parks has gone down, which is just incredibti because visi is at an all time high. >> reporter: back with lisa and doug, the short trip was worth it. >> some things you can't afford, but some things you can't no afford, and this right here you can't not afford. >> reporter: for them, a view that can't be seen in pictures. for the pbs newshour, i'm tyler fingert at the grand canyon national park in arizona. >> woodruff: now the latest entry to the newshour bookshelf, advice for parents coping with very sick children. after a career and counselor specializing in e care of children with cancer, joanna breyer hasn writhen your child is sick: a guide for parents of children undergoing medical care for serious illnesses." joanna breyewelcome to the newshour. >> thank you. >> woodruff: i'll be candid at the outset. i wanted to talk to you because among other things my husband and i have had a son w serious medical issues and we knowi know, firsthand what a serious subject this i

but in terms of the other specifics, i defer to the national park service. >> okay. i do want to reiterate, as i mentioned at our last meeting, the park service is required by regulation and policy to adhere to a very tough standard for the concession contract and golden gate follows that closely. is a very rigourous process. this is a large contract for the national park service. it -- all components of it go through the competitive process. it is overseen by the washington office because of its size. and with that, i will turn it over to you. >> i would jus will just speak a moment to the criteria in which the perspective offers will be evaluated. we actually do have -- sorry i do not have the full prospectus with meat right now, but we do have two criteria that they will be evaluated on regarding their vessels. does certainly cover things like the vessel size, minimum requirements which we have discussed at length here. as well as amenities for comfo comfort, excess ability, other components. there's a really rigourous element related to environmental performance a

national park. the watershed is 459 square miles and controlled and managed by yosemite national park. by way of background, the act of 1913 authorized the city of san francisco to construct the water project in yosemite national park. under the raker act, san francisco is required to reimburse the national park service for the cost of inspection necessary to secure compliance with the sanitary regulations that are cited in the act. as well as the cost of roads and trail maintenance and expenses incurred to the park service. they also have an exemption for filtration of water delivered from the project to the customers. and these activities are things like stock management, waste water treatment. the park service developed a memorandum of understanding to cover the costs of the requirements in addition to funding, to enhance water quality in concert with the filtration exemption. in 2016, the board of supervisors approved a resolution authorizing a memorandum of agreement between the puc and the par

and we have agreed upon for 50 years since the creation of the piscataway national park. worked together -- let's work together to save that view. finally, when i think about this view i think about george washington's challenge to all of us. when he came back to mount vernon at the end of the american revolutionary war, he told the country that the hardest part was yet to come. winning independence was the beginning, it is what we do with it that matters. history is a long sequence of choices by groups that have made choices. it is not an inevitable lifts up -- list of facts you have to memorize. we are the ones shaping the future, just as the present was shaped by people in our past. as george washington said, millions of unborn be affected by the revolutionary moment. we are those children. the choices that we make will affect this generation and the next generation to come, and millions more. the choices the ladies association made to defend that affects our lives today. future will be affected by the choices we make and dominion energy makes and all of you make. let'

worked in the national park service for 30 years. for the last few years he was the chief historian of the entire national park service. so he is kind of a rock star for us. [laughter] so since he retired, dr. pitcaithley teaches at new mexico state unirs

national park. we would like to see -- did nalley national park. national park. we would like to see more cruise ships. >> the need for us to begin to convert our energy sources over to something a little more sustainable. when i think about that, i noticed that here at usaa, our diesel technology program has begun talking to native corporations and working with people in the villages to try to figure out what we can do to prepare for the future. we are definitely a state that depends a lot on oil and that will be true for a long time. making the most efficient and effective use of those resources is really important. along the way, we hope at universities like ours we can train people for those jobs of the future. 22join us july 21 and july when we feature our visit to alaska. watch alaska weekend on c-span, c-span.org, or listen on the c-span radio app. tonight, it is my honor and privilege to announce that i will nominate judge brett kavanaugh to the united states supreme court. >> mr. president,

hot we're about to get coming up. >>> this morning, a mass evacuation is under way at yosemite national parks smoke from a deadly wildfire fills the valley. >> kpix 5's anne makovec telling us that much of the park is shutting down today at noon. >> reporter: this closure could last through sunday. at least 1,000 campgrounds and hotel reservations have been canceled and this is of course the peak of the summer tourist season. highway 140 is already closed and at noon officials will close highway 41. that's the route that goes north from fresno into the heart of the park. the ferguson fire has been raging for two weeks now in rugged terrain burning close to 60 square miles. the fire is 25% contained and it's threatening highway 41. so the park service is shutting down yosemite valley including some of its most picturesque attractions which are now engulfed in heavy smoke. we have some time lapse video that shows a thick haze at sentinel dome, half dome and yosemite falls also nearly invisible behind a veil of smoke. >> the cumulative effect, poor air quality, sustained poor air quality, the w

like the national park service, the national endowment for the arts and humanity the chemical safety board and the smithsonian institution. beyond these important investments, the bill right sizes regulatory programs to ensure the government is working to support american families and their communities. this also includes addressing emplt p.a.'s regulatory agenda, supporting the administration's proposal to reshape its work force. this will enabling the agency to focus on its core duties while reducing unnecessary spending. the second bill in this package also works to reduce waste across government, the financial services appropriation bill authored by representative graves of georgia totals $23.4 billion which like the interior bill is equal to fiscal year 2018 levels. this bill prioritizes effective programs that improve our national security and expands economic opportunity while finding efficiencies government-wide and while stopping harmful overregulation. this bill also supports america's small business by providing loans and resources that will help us grow and thrive and pro

as smoke from a deadly wildfire chokes the national park. that fire has now s >>> much of yosemite is a ghost town this morning. tourists forced to leave as smoke from a deadly wildfire chokes the national park. that fire has now scorched more than 41,000 acres and it's only 26% contained. both highway 140 and 41 are closed. kpix 5's andria borba traveled to the heart of the park as tourists were sent packing. >> reporter: well, it is certainly odd out here right now. there's nobody out here in july. it is safe to say at this point, for a first time in a very long time, wildlife outnumber people in yosemite valley. the roads of yosemite valley aren't clogged it tourists. they are just empty. smoke from the ferguson fire has inundated the valley floor. as of noon, all tourists were ordered to get out, due to the unhealthy air quality. the announcement upended many scheduled vacations. >> we have been planning it since march. but even longer in a dream. we brought two people from laos from 8,000 miles away. it's a big ur be cael >> reporter: e

the national park system. so this grant will also give us an opportunity to increase the amount of money and funds we give for historic preservation of civil riots site -- civil rights sites. the current struggle for equality and justice, there's so much history that deserves to be preserved and interpreted for future generations. i want to thank the chairman of the subcommittee, mr. culvert. i would also like to thank ms. mccol numb their help for preserving civil rights sites all across the united states. now is the time to do that preservation. at this time i yield two minutes to my friend from south carolina who will also support increasing the historic preservation fund, the democratic assistant leader, jim clyburn. the chair: the gentleman from south carolina is recognized for two minutes. mr. clyburn: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, i rise in support of the sewell amendment. this proposal would increase funding for grants from the historic preservation fund to preserve the sites and tell the st

. >>> a group of environmentalists wants the reservoir eliminated to be part of yosemite national park. >> hech reservoir supplies water to 4.2 million bay residents in san francisco, santa clara and alameda. >> i love our water quality. it would be upsetting. >> but the u.s. department secretary met with the executive director and postedat reservoir sunday and tweeted, "taking a fresh look at different opportunities and options to restore the public access to the valley". >> it's an important part of the valley. >> the environmental group has been fighting to have it drained and be part of yosemite national park for years. he's preparing to take his legal battle to the california supreme court, a measure to study emptying the resident voi was overwhelmingly rejected by san francisco voters in 2012 and it appears to still be unpopular with residents. >> it's just a bunch of lobbyists lobbying to do something that waste taxpayers money. >> a nonprofit bay area council represents the largest employers. >> to dismantle it would increase the carbon footprint and decrease our water supply a

. >> now at 6:00, under evacuation as a wildfire near yosemite national park rages out of control. locals and visitors being given just hours to get out. >> plus, a secretly recorded conversation between president trump and his former attorney is out. the playboy model payment discussed. >> and jackpot, the bay area city where a $522 million winning mega millions ticket was sold. michelle was not the winner. >> i was not the winner but somebody is very happy this morning whoever it is that oner. good morning, it is wednesday, july 25th. i'm michelle griego. >> and i'm kenny choi. let's start with a live look outside at we kick off the 6:00 hour. as we take a live look from "salesforce tower" camera, you can

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which borders yellowstone national park. while that's interesting to see, bison can be very dangerous, also they spread disease to cattle. >>> from speed to precision and a different kind of horsepower, we go to wood side for a competition that just wrapped wrapped up this weekend. . >> sit in traffic on the bay area freeways and it's hard to reconcile the fact that you're breathing in exhaust fumes in what was once horse country. there's still pockets where people practice the skills vital to california's commerce. this week at the horse park in wood side, some of the top riders in the world competed in the 20th version of raining by the bay. >> it involved from the working ranch horse, the cowboy's horse that need to be light and willingly guided. >> first time i got on the reigning horse it was special. it felt like the horse was doing it on his own. i didn't have to force it or push it. >> the stop is the hall mark of the reigning horse. >> mike mc entire originally from north carolina and now living in clementes califor

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a rare sight near yosemite yellowstone national park. i was being tracked by officials.ade it to montana which is on the border of yosemite before they finally caught up with it. this is interesting to see but bison can also be dangerous and spread disease to cattle. >> back here at home, here's a look at the winner of the san francisco marathon, that's hor he crossed the finish line in under two hours. 27,000 inwiths took part in the marathon. the colorado rockies beat the oakland a's 3-2. . he hit the homer in the 4th, chris davis hit his 28th homer of the year to bring the a's within one run. however, oakland couldn't even things up. e rockies went on a game. the a's come back home playing the blue jay's font. >> the giants beat the milwaukee brewers 8-5 yesterday. . >> to left center field, anybody there? nobody there. one run scores and two runs score. they all score. >> yeah, buster poe si put the giants up, bases clearing double in the third. the giants increased their lead in the fifth. pablo hit his first triple in three years. milwaukee chipped awap at the lead