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Show February Dinosaur visits up February visitation to Dinosaur National Na-tional Mmment amounted to 74,57-a jj percent increase over last year's Hjre of 6,W7. According ,0 Park Superintendent lie k Kennedy, in spite of this modest jnorease, travel so far in 1982 is down 20 y(vent comparts! to last year due Jncstly t 8l's mlld 'llttr- Uny travel trend for 19S2 won't hime evident for several more mon- "said Kennedy, "it is just too early to tell." When asked about backeountry ae-i ae-i s, Kennedy said that all of the back-country back-country areas (Island and Rainbow parks, and we Harpers Corner Road) u still closed due to wet roads or snowpvacked conditions. Park officials M,d that it will be mid-April before travel would be recommended into piiKsaur's backeountry. |