New Philadelphia NHS newest addition to US NP System; first town planned by free African American

BARRY, Ill. — After more than a quarter century of work and hope, Phil Bradshaw says it feels great to see New Philadelphia take its next step into history.

Four pages of the 4,155-page Omnibus Appropriations Act passed by the Senate and House, and signed Friday by President Joe Biden, establish the New Philadelphia National Historic Site as a unit of the National Park Service to “protect, preserve and interpret” the first town in the United States planned and legally registered by a free African American.

https://www.whig.com/lifestyles/history/new-philadelphia-named-unit-of-the-national-park-service/article_ac80c5f2-8546-11ed-b270-fbe60f1ac464.html

Theodore Roosevelt NP wants to slowly eliminate feral horse herd, arousing anger among enthusiasts

MEDORA, N.D. — The wild horses that have roamed the Badlands of Theodore Roosevelt National Park since before its creation could be captured and removed in a gradual elimination of the herd.

The National Park Service has announced that its proposal for handling the herd, which has grown to almost 200 horses, is to reduce the size to zero over time.

https://www.inforum.com/news/north-dakota/theodore-roosevelt-national-park-mulls-removing-wild-horses-kept-as-a-remnant-of-the-open-range

Did the CBD COP deliver the goods? Not surprisingly, it depends on whom you ask

The talking is over, and a text has been agreed on the next decade of targets to save the natural world. Here are the highs and lows of the Convention of Biological Diversity’s (CBD) agreement, as interpreted by The Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/20/cop15-montreal-did-it-deliver-for-natural-world-aoe