petrov76

If you had to remove one national park, and promote one national monument or forest to a national park, which would you pick for each?

There's a whole hodge-podge of different areas: National Recreation Areas, National Monuments, National Wilderness Preservation Systems, National Preserves, and another dozen or so categories. Some of these are managed by NPS and some by the USFS (and some by the BLM, or Fish & Wildlife, or some other entity like NOAA), and to make it super complicated, some are managed by more than one at the same time.

To make it even more confusing, you sometimes have areas that are managed by NPS but another area of the same type is managed by the USFS. For example, the Lake Chelan National Recreation Area is managed by NPS, but the nearby Mount Baker National Recreation Area is managed by the USFS, despite these both being NRAs in the same state, less than a 100 miles apart. And then there's the outlier, the White Mountains NRA, which is managed by neither of these (the BLM runs it).

What's your thoughts on the Open Access movement?

What do you think is an appropriate timeframe for AP's photos to pass into the public domain?

I was reading a NASA article that said that the Amazon fires were about average for the year, when compared to the 15 year mean.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145464/fires-in-brazil

If they are about average, why are they getting so much media attention and scrutiny? If they aren't average, what makes them different, and how did the folks at NASA get this wrong?