Archives for: October 2005, 10
Selling 15 National Parks
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I don't know what Rep. Richard Pombo (Tracy, CA Republican Representative), Chairman of the House Resources Committee, is thinking. According to the Fact Sheet - Pombo Reconciliation Draft Legislation Threatens America’s Heritage, Pombo is proposing to "close 15 national parks and sell them off to the oil and gas industries and private developers; demanded that park vehicles and facilities be turned into billboards for commercial advertising; and suggested that commercial naming rights be sold for park buildings and trails, among other unprecedented proposals." That proposal is simply ridiculous. It infuriates me.
The Sacramento Bee Editorial: Rep. Pombo's yard sale, calls this a “bizarre thought” --- to sell off the National Parks if we don’t drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. I think it is not only bizarre but also barbaric. What kind of tactic is that? I hope the people of Tracy, CA know what their representative is doing. I hope they never re-elect Rep. Richard Pombo. I hope the people in the US never vote for anyone who thinks like Pombo.
Alaska Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Source of Picture: US Fish & Wildlife Service -Alaska
The 15 sites proposed to be closed are:
- Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument, Texas
- Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve, Alaska
- Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Alaska
- Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Alaska
- Eugene O'Neill National Historical Site, California
- Fort Bowie National Historic Site, Arizona
- Frederick Law Olmsted National Historical Site, Massachusetts
- Kobuk Valley National Park, Alaska
- Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska
- Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, Washington, D.C.
- Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, South Dakota
- Noatak National Preserve, Alaska
- Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial, Pennsylvania
- Thomas Stone National Historical Site, Maryland
- Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Alaska
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