My friend you are a bit naive. That money does not go to save the endangered salmon or anything of sort, it goes into a general fund, or to fund their salaries and pensions.
LOL I believe in earning one’s salary, and some of these types spend all their time destroying what little natural beauty we have. I am not against environmental issues, and preserving things, but I am against idiots who have no idea what they are doing.
Even the Indians had the common sense to use controlled burns, to keep the forests from being destroyed by wildfires. Cutting trees in a heavy forest area, and throwing them in the river, to keep children from playing in the water is just cruel...not conservation.
That money ends up fueling the flames of ‘global warming’, and causes the left can use to elect the likes of Obama. Not a good use of our natural resources. There are many good government employees in our park systems, but some are just there to cause trouble.