National Parks ordered to slash budgets by the Bush admin

[montana500]

You can read more public land stories like this updated daily at www.wilderness-sportsman.com


http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/nation/14353235.htm?source=syn

"WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration has ordered America's national parks to show that they can function at 80 percent or less of their operating budgets, and that's forcing some parks to cut services for visitors as summer approaches.

National Park Service officials said the initiative was an effort to cope with the rising costs of salaries, utilities and other management expenses without harming the parks' "core" missions of protecting the nation's natural treasures and enabling visitors to enjoy them. The Park Service has more than 270 million visitors annually.

But park officials in the field said the initiative was forcing "gut-wrenching" decisions that visitors would notice. At many parks, volunteers will take on larger roles and there'll be fewer interpretive ranger programs, the officials said.

At Glacier National Park in Montana, three campgrounds no longer will have potable water or trash service this summer."

[MadMaddie]

1. Well the end is near for National Treasures and Parks..

After slashing all of the monies to protect these national parks...the * cabal will say well it's just land going to waste lets drill on it...sell it to real estate companies etc....

Have the Repug hunters and fishers caught on yet....

[peaches2003]

3. Yes, the fisherman have

I can't speak for hunters, but I know fishing groups such as Trout Unlimited, Repugs and Dems, have been fighting Bush tooth and nail since he was selected. They saw how he has been destroying the wilderness in order to benefit his corporate friends since 2000.

[MadMaddie]

6. Thank goodness.....

I am glad to hear that....

[peaches2003]

13. TU

My husband is a member and they are constantly sending out literature to members of what Bush and the Dept. of Interior are up to and asking for Congress to be swamped with letters of protest. Of course, Bushco and Cheney, who is supposedly such a sportsman, could care less as long as their corporate buddies get ownership of public wilderness to exploit and ravage. Never have heard a word that Bush cares about anything sportswise except laying on the sofa, drinking beer and gagging on pretzels.

[MadMaddie]

18. The * cabal doesn't want us to know how they are going

to redistribute public lands to their cronies.....they are pretend sportsman, just as they are pretend soldiers...just as they are pretend Christians....whew....and pretend patriots.....

He...he...gagging on pretzels.....what a dumbass....guess he forgot to chew before swallowing.....sigh... and this boy child is the presdident...

[Donkeykick]

7. Yep!

cabal will say well it's just land going to waste lets drill on it...

You're right. Just think about the way Dubya eyes Alaska!

Have the Repug hunters and fishers caught on yet....

This is the real one that makes me laugh; it really does! I know so many of these people that supported Bush in 04 that it was remarkable! One day they will know though--when they can not fish or hunt because there is nothing to get!:eyes:

[rodeodance]

12. cheney always seems to hunt on private land. I imagine many do.

[wordpix2]

16. now that he's destroyed our national lands, he'll just stay with his rich

buddies on their estate. Until he's thrown into jail, that is.

[robinlynne]

2. I hate them.

When we get our country back will we able to fix it, or will it be bled dry?

[Cleita]

4. When I was a volunteer campground host almost ten years

ago, the parks were functioning on a starvation budget then. They can't do their jobs with even less. Did you know that the sales of lumber in national forests to lumber companies is far less than the lumber companies pay to log on private land? The same goes for grazing cattle. Yet, no one comes up the the bright idea to charge these corporations for using the land and it's resources by paying market price. It would relieve a lot of budget worries. Instead, they try to sock it to the campers and vacationers.

[wordpix2]

15. BushCo refuses to make the logger & rancher barons pay their fair share to

use OUR land and resources. Obviously, that's because the robber development barons pay to keep the * criminals in charge.

[napi21]

5. They already did that with the Army Corps of Engineers here.

There was a notice in our local paper a few weeks ago that they were closing 3 of the campgrounds on Lake Lanier because the Army COE who comtrol the lake and the parks had to reduce expenses. It's a shame too. It's a nice place to camp, and wasn't cheap either!

[Patchuli]

8. That is what happens

when you pull your 'priorities' out of your a$$! How about "Slashing" the money away from those unfair, unjust and idiotic tax cuts for the rich FIRST????????!! How about * actually following the Christian Bible which ordered man to protect and keep the Earth? He's a Christian by his proclamation only.

I'm sick of these excuses for humans...

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. The BushBastards won't be happy until everything is stripped and paved

The care not one bit about our natural treasures.

[Ksec]

10. naturally

Who can blame the bushies? If we spend money on these damn parks , we cant fund Iraq and Halliburton.

I mean , cmon.

[rodeodance]

11. some days i just want to scream.

[wordpix2]

14. as I said on earlier thread about this, * is also privatizing our parks

http://www.xanterra.com/

Xanterra Parks & Resorts® is the country’s largest park & resort management company. We emphasize ecologically sensitive tourism and our environmental management and conservation programs at national parks have received widespread acclaim.

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In recent years, we have emerged as a leader in orchestrating effective, efficient partnerships with the National Park Service. Funding the construction of a 10,000-square-foot gift and foodservice facility at Mount Rushmore, the new $18 million Old Faithful Snow Lodge and the new $3.7 million Dunraven Lodge in Yellowstone National Park, we are dedicated to building a sound reputation for quality preservation of our historic and national facilities.
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Friggin @holes are building all over the parks. BushCo's idea of "environmental management and conservation programs at national parks" is building more lodges and tourist facilities.

[SoCalDem]

17. No trash service = more bear killings

:cry: