{"id":957,"date":"2007-01-30T10:45:18","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T15:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=957"},"modified":"2007-01-30T10:45:18","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T15:45:18","slug":"mining-the-national-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/01\/30\/mining-the-national-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"Mining the national parks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not for ore, necessarily, but for precious species.  <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalparkstraveler.typepad.com\/national_parks_traveler\/2007\/01\/running_parks_m.html\">National Parks Traveler has the rundown:<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today marked the end of the public comment period on the Park Service&#8217;s intention to open the parks to bioprospecting, in which commercial enterprises would be allowed to sift through a park&#8217;s natural resources &#8212; Yellowstone&#8217;s mudpots and hot springs, for instance, or Olympic&#8217;s temperate rain forests &#8212; to see if there are any beneficial organisms that might hold commercial promise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stands to reason that if some undiscovered mushroom can cure cancer, the parks ought to be able to cash in  on the commercial potential. The big if: can these species be &#8220;mined&#8221; without doing more harm than good?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not for ore, necessarily, but for precious species. National Parks Traveler has the rundown: Today marked the end of the public comment period on the Park Service&#8217;s intention to open the parks to bioprospecting, in which commercial enterprises would be&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/01\/30\/mining-the-national-parks\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}