Unfortunately the people who run it are leftie loonies. They had a study going for years and wanted to implement the plan they had developed. These folks proposed a plan that would close most of the park to humans, while they, the "concerned ones", attempted to return the fauna, flora, species, et al to pre-European settler times!!!!!!
the locals (who love and support the park) got wind of this, over one thousand people showed up to the public meeting, that went 12 hours longer than normal, and only 200 or so people got to talk. They were livid. anger seething towards the loonies.
so the park "tabled" that agenda.....for now. The head rangerette (always some feminazi involved with this kind of stuff) was quoted as saying.....get this....
"I guess they're just not ready to do the right thing"
AAAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!
You, and we, had better fight this UN Agenda 21 item whenever it comes near us.
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Oh my GOSH!!! That is a good story!!! Dying laughing. Here is my true confession, I've been afraid to spill about my whacko enviro days :)
Darksheare won't talk to me anymore.
I worked for the NPS for ten years, and it wasn't like that then... many of my good friends still work for the agency, but they are more like law enforcement/fire/rescue types and not the crunchy rangerette granolas. I saw one in Yellowstone last summer though, and she is a completely brainwashed liberal. We have exchanged heated emails since then.
I have written scathing (but polite) letters to the current Nazi Superintendent at Saguaro NP. Just as one example, she "temporarily" closed a mountain biking trail last year in Saguaro - THE ONLY ONE IN THE PARK and it's only two and a half miles long. Some extremists wanted it shut, so they shut it. It's finally open now, but what a joke that was.
There is so much "dead wood" at Saguaro, and at a lot of other parks too. When I conducted my master's research there, I was continually harassed by one of the feminazis, even though my research was unobtrusive and I had permission from the superintendent. I could go on and on for hours with specific examples. My letters never get answered.
I attended that public meeting last month about the "problems in the parks", thinking I would learn something, contribute my experience, and also reconnect with some old buddies. Even though something like $4/5 used to come out of our pockets each year to support the national parks (we had it figured out to the penny when I worked there and qualified for food stamps even though I'd NEVER apply of course), and every administration has slashed park budgets; never funded them enough; never fired the dead wood; never investigated the fraud; etc., all of a sudden everything is President Bush's fault. AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH is right!
Have they found some pre european indians to move in and live totally primitively and without any healthcare?
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