Posted on 07/09/2013 8:31:48 PM PDT by Route395
In its new mission to extract every dollar possible out of park visitors, California State Parks is pricing itself out of reach of many, starting with young families, city kids and young adults. So is the Department of Fish and Wildlife, which charges the highest-priced fishing licenses in America and yet is providing the public with less than ever this summer. Ten years ago, it cost $2 to park and $12 to camp at state parks. Now its $10 to park and $35 and up to camp. State Parks wants to add electronic self-pay stations, where you pay by credit card. That would allow them to add new pay sites without adding staff, and also add specialty fees, such as for premium campsites.
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Hosti gezen in dayne lebn? They darker than us! Woof! ;-)
Don’t think I told you about Big Bend.
I have never been there yet.
Looking up about Arco, ID on Wiki:
Population of 995 at 2010 census.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arco,_Idaho
All I know is it is Arco Idaho LOL
How did the sail of the Devilboat get there? LOL
Oh okay. That must have been another FReeper. Got to talking about National Parks out west a couple of years ago on a thread and a TX FReeper said Big Bend was a great National Park to see.
Yer right, it is just a rest stop.
I have know idea what the back story is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Hawkbill_%28SSN-666%29
Big Bend could be rather dangerous these days.
That is a mystery for sure. Would be neat to find out the story on that. I guess you could always contact the City Hall in Arco and find out.
Here's a pic I took on the trip to MT to or from Little Big Horn on the highway:
Idaho science center
Not the sort of thing you expect to see up there LOL
Oh you mean because of being close to the border? I think when I was looking up about it that might have been asked about on different sites that I went to.
No...not at all. Out in the middle of nowhere.
Am I good or what? Had that rest stop look to it. :)
Yes.
The border is getting lawless these past 10 years.
Okay, now I get why you called it the devil boat! The numbers didn’t register when I looked at first pic. Duh!
That's a shame that we gotta feel unsafe from that in our own country. Mountain lions there, too. Course we have those here in CO.
The Charles M. Russell wildlife refuge, on the Missouri river, were I go is free.
The only Idaho link that I can think of
http://www.navy.mil/navydata/cno/n87/usw/issue_11/submarine_stealth.html
That is what I am talkin about!
I wonder if that's near Arco. Will look up. Or someone on the sub was from Arco? I'm gonna have to do some research. :)
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