Anyone else hear about the latest * Plan to destroy the National Parks?

[Up2Late]

(Sorry I haven't yet found this in a longer written form, But here is what was reported on PRI's show "Marketplace" (Public Radio International):

Pristine wilderness meets Britney Spears?

Listen to this story (click link above or below)

For years the National Park Service has been in the business of preserving that nature. But according to internal documents leaked today, recreation may soon replace preservation. Sam Eaton reports. (photos © National Park Service)

<http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2005/08/26/PM200508262.html>

[BayCityProgressive]

1. I am not

really shocked by this. Many on the Right consider government owned or regulated land to be Socialist.

[seafan]

2. This LAT piece was on the greatest page yesterday:

LAT: Proposed Revisions of National Park Policy Cause Stir

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1728895#1730943

Fury doesn't come close to describing it any more.

[Up2Late]

3. Thanks, I found a NY Time link in that thread too

Here are the links:

L.A. Times
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-na-parks26aug26,0,7654249.story?coll=la-home-headlines>

New York Time
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/26/politics/26park.html?th&emc=th>

I'll see if I can find a link to the International Herald Tribune for those who don't like having to sign up for website access.

[teach1st]

4. "Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness.."

"There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people shoud see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children's children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred."
Theodore Roosevelt, Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter 1905.


"Defenders of the short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things sometimes seek to champion them by saying that 'the game belongs to the people.' So it does; and not merely to the people now alive, but to the unborn people. The 'greatest good for the greatest number' applies to the number within the womb of time, compared to which those now alive form but an insignificant fraction. Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wild life and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method."
Theodore Roosevelt, A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open 1916.