Posted on 07/23/2010 1:26:44 PM PDT by KeyLargo
Vice President Biden to visit Yellowstone on Monday
Posted: Friday, July 23, 2010 12:15 am | Updated: 9:59 am, Fri Jul 23, 2010.
By DANIEL PERSON, Chronicle Staff Writer
Vice President Joe Biden will visit Yellowstone National Park on Monday, the White House said in a written statement Friday.
At 11:45 a.m. Monday, the vice president will speak to workers outside the Madison Junior Ranger Station, located just inside the park's West Entrance. He will be joined by the director of the National Park Service, Jonathan Jarvis.
During his trip west, Biden will also visit Grand Canyon National Park. His trip is meant to highlight the fact that $25 million in federal stimulus funding is being used in the parks. According to the White House statement, more than 1,000 workers have been part of 17 stimulus-funded projects in the two national parks.
Original Report: Airspace over Gallatin Field will be intermittently closed to commercial and general aviation Friday, Monday and Tuesday for VIP visitors to the area, an airport official confirmed Friday.
However, those in the know are being tightlipped about who it is that's coming to town.
"We are planning for a very important person visit," Brian Sprenger, director of Gallatin Field airport, said Thursday. "I cannot say who it is."
The buzz around the valley is that Vice President Joe Biden will be vacationing in Big Sky this weekend. A Big Sky Resort spokesman declined comment and directed a media enquiry to the White House. A White House spokeswoman said she could not confirm Biden's visit, but said more information would be released on Friday.
The skies over the Bozeman-Big Sky area will be dubbed "National Defense Airspace" from today through July 27, according to a Federal Aviation Administration document detailing the flight restrictions. The document also cites federal law spelling out restrictions in the "vicinity of any area to be visited or traveled by the president (or) vice president ..."
Sprenger said he expects "almost no impact on airline travel" due to the restrictions and "some impact on general aviation." General aviation refers to small, non-commercial aircraft.
The impact will be "a lot less than our visitor last year," Sprenger said, a reference to President Barack Obama's August 2009 visit to Belgrade, Big Sky and Yellowstone National Park.
In National Defense Airspace, according to the FAA, the "U.S. Government may use deadly force against ... aircraft if it is determined that the aircraft poses an imminent security threat."
Specific restrictions listed by the FAA will be in effect tonight between 8 and 10:15 p.m.; from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Monday; and 7:15 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Tuesday.
Daniel Person can be reached at dperson@dailychronicle.com
Be a good time for it to erupt
B.O. was there last year.
First Family Vacations At Yellowstone
Big Sky Resort keeps Obama vacation secret
By eTN Staff Writer | Aug 17, 2009
http://www.eturbonews.com/11097/big-sky-resort-keeps-obama-vacation-secret
Great.!! Have him go out and Hand Feed the Bears.
I heard the bears like the taste of Dims.
........ why ???
Biden is a walking disaster. Should we allow him near the Yellowstone caldera?
More areas and for longer periods of time being closed because the ruling elites need to pollute the skies. Why not just close all airspace across the entire country for good so that Her Highness Pelosi and all the BOs can criss-cross at free will? Seems to be the direction in which we're heading.
The wanna-be kings and queens are not THAT important, sorry, it's about the country and Constitution, not these tyrants.
Old Faithless going to visit Old Faithful.
That much heated exhaust in one place is going to be a massive global warming event...
Biden’s impressed with anything that can belch more hot air than he can.
Oh, great, my daughter, son-in-law and grandkids will be arriving on Monday.
Tell him to wear a pork chop around his neck when in Yellowstone.
There’s also some nice places to rollerblade near the edge of the Grand Canyon.
There have been two recent bison on human violent events in the park. Go Buffs!
Walter is great, do not associate him with Biden.
The similarity is almost chilling.
So... in addition to the dozens of vacations that have been announced, they have had ‘secret’ vacations?
Wanna bet he asks somebody where yogi is?
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