Have you seen Yosemite lately? The place is a mess. The forests are a disaster of bad management while weeds threaten what's left.
Let's see, the Constitution authorizes the Federal government to hold "forts, dockyards, arsenals, magazines, and other needful buildings." It doesn't list 'parks, wetlands, marine preserves, and other national treasures.'
Why should Fedgov hold an armed monopoly in the land entertainment business? Is it to benefit a special interest? That is why Yellowstone was set aside in the first place, to please the railroads with the first ever subsidy in "eco-tourism" business. The fire there in 1989 caused so much erosion that the ROOFS of some buildings were six feet under mud. The Park Service tyrannizes their neighbors. They virtually steal "their" land. They pay no insurance. The infrastructure is crumbling. They do a lousy job while depressing the investment value of going into competition with them. I frankly don't think you believe that to be a good thing but it is inherent to any socialized industry.
I suggest that these "national treasures" would be a lot better off in private hands and I'm no "free traitor."
I hear Arnold wants to close the beaches in Southern California. That’ll go over well. But I’ll bet he keeps Muscle Beach open.
. Uhh Carry, I'm from that neck of the woods, I never saw or read reports as you claim. In fact, erosion that first year was far less a problem than first anticipated. Irregardless, those fires were a natural process that burned up hundreds of thousands of acres of DEAD lodgepole pines and opened up the land for vegetation more condusive to the wildlife there.
I agree with your comments. What that leaves us is conservancies or foreign control of our parks.
Both those concerns are objectionable to me. I consider the conservancies to be leftist front organizations for the most part, holding vast parcels of land that the government has essentially gifted them through provision of federal dollars or outright land grants.
Would you like to see conservancies take over our parks?
I had also meant to ask you what your thought on federal ownership of land is.
It’s been my thinking that the federal government shouldn’t hold all the land that it does. It should revert to the states. Do you disagree with that opinion?
I would add, that I do think the federal government has some need of large parcels of land for defense purposes. I don’t think it should hold all that it does.