From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point.

America's National Parks, Under Pressure.

Hello again, I'm Arminolny, and this is an archived edition of To the Point.

From Public Radio International, a daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

From Maine to California, America's most popular government program is in trouble. Despite increased

appropriations, almost 400 national parks, monuments, and forests may cut services to meet increasing costs.

On To the Point, Will Yellowstone, Bryce Canyon, Shenandoah, and Acadia

continue to offer travelers what they expect? Do so-called energy corridors for pipelines and power

transmission threaten protection of parks and other public lands for future generations? On reporters' notebook

later on, Star Trek, on the internet. We'll talk to Sulu, George Takeh, 30 years later.

First, here's the news.

Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica and from the Public Radio International Program Fund,

whose contributors include the Ford Foundation and the John D. and

Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Hello again, Warren Alney, back with To the Point. Congressional

investigators say the national parks are short of money. On To the Point, what will travelers

find or not find at Acadia at Yellowstone or Bryce Canyon? Our so-called energy corridors

to bring gas and electricity to the southwest,

a threat to protection of public lands. On reporter's notebook, a new webisode of Star Trek,

The New Voyages on the Internet. We'll hear about a labor of love. First, this news update,

President Bush says he'll consider any suggestions made by the Iraq Study Group, led by James Baker,

Secretary of State for the current president's father. There have been reports that Baker was

set in to clean up the mess in Iraq, but the White House firmly denies that. Now the online

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