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Richard Marks, 50, the superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park, stepped aboard a 19-ft. Boston Whaler last month to hear it for himself. Skimming eastward across the azure expanses of Lake Mead, Marks and two park rangers maneuvered their craft into the lower reaches of the Colorado River. Soon the majestic red walls of the Grand Canyon towered overhead. They cut the engine, grounded the boat on a sandbar and waited quietly...
...sight. Moments later, an airplane appeared, swooped by so its passengers could enjoy a leisurely view of the gorge and soared away. Soon another light plane buzzed above the gorge. In an hour, Marks counted nine different aircraft. "To someone who spends several days hiking into the Grand Canyon and then gets bombarded," he said, "this is a heck of a problem...
Indeed, the National Park Service estimates that there are about 100,000 flights across the 1.2 million-acre Grand Canyon each year, or an average of 274 a day. Since his appointment more than five years ago, Marks has done little to curtail the traffic. Now the climate in Washington appears to be changing. National Park Service Director William Penn Mott announced in an interview last year that he favors excluding "airplanes and helicopters from the canyon itself." Even so, control of flights over--and into--the Grand Canyon may fall under the jurisdiction of the Federal Aviation Administration...
...BEGIN WITH, when I arrived here in 1983, it didn't even really exist. The majority of the Square had been replaced by a giant canyon of concrete and twisted metal, the likes of which had not been seen since the days of the London V-2 blitz. The real problem, however, was what surrounded the subway's gaping...
...most when they enter a showroom. Whatever models consumers choose to buy, they may spend more time behind the wheel because of cheap gas. Economists expect to see an increase in cross-country driving this summer, which will benefit businesses around vacation spots from Disney World to the Grand Canyon...