Though it has faced some recent setbacks, the Recreational Aviation Foundation (RAF) is celebrating the renewal of a maintenance agreement with the National Park Service (NPS) involving three airstrips within the Death Valley National Park in California. The five-year Memorandum of Understanding extends an agreement between RAF and NPS that was originally established in 2008.
I presume those strips are used by researchers, given
Stovepipe Wells and Furnace Creek questions about accuracy of temperature records from one of those locations compared to the other.
Sadly it seems that the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management are not on the same page closing strips that were there long before they were included in wilderness areas.
Perhaps ‘Heritage’ designation could save the strips.
I thought Delta Airpark in Delta BC would be shoved out by air traffic at Boundary Bay airport as it got busier, but it carried on as ‘Delta Heritage Airpark’. No commercial maintenance businesses anymore however.
USGS installation of a few monitoring stations near one of the string of volcanic mountains in the Cascade Range in WA state was held up waiting for permitting by another agency, with winter coming.
With all the space and trees in the area, fussing about permits was craziness.