National Parks Under Siege

[montana500]

www.wilderness-sportsman.com



"Year after year, Americans express greater satisfaction with the National Park Service than with almost any other aspect of the federal government. From the point of view of most visitors, there is no incentive to revise the basic management policy that guides park superintendents, a policy that was last revised in 2001 and is usually re-examined only every 10 or 15 years. Longtime park service employees feel much the same way. Yet in the past two months we have seen two proposed revisions. The first, written by Paul Hoffman, a deputy assistant secretary in the Interior Department, was a genuinely scandalous rewriting that would have destroyed the national park system.

On Tuesday, the Interior Department released a new draft. The question isn't whether this revision is better than Mr. Hoffman's drastic rewrite. Almost anything would be better than his version, a glaring example of the zeal to dilute conservation with commercialism among political appointees in the Interior Department. But the new draft would still undermine the national parks."

[expatriot]

1. The 1st sentence tells why BushCo is intent on "reforming" Nat'l Parks

"Year after year, Americans express greater satisfaction with the National Park Service than with almost any other aspect of the federal government."

Heaven forbid Americans express satisfaction with anything having to do with "federal government."

[Sparkman]

3. originally Libertarians/Birchers demanded a gov. of only Military & Cops.

So you're spot on, gutting the Federal 1st, then the State governments would create the "fun zone" dream of Pinnochio and the other bad boys & girls. Socialism is a far cry from what the U.S. offers now, and yet they view any entitlements as socialism and any oversight as intrusion. My 10 yr. old nephew wants freedoms of adults, and like this neocon group, neither has show the maturity to handle any power. imo

[Kolesar]

2. Those *-hole republicans like to turn park policy into a wedge issue

They place creationist propaganda in the NPS bookstores and they incite discontent with a snowmobiling policy. For Forest Service policy, they create discontent with arbitrary usage rules just to make people angry at "the gummit".