Posted on 01/05/2019 6:39:25 PM PST by fruser1
Edited on 01/05/2019 6:59:07 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
Black holes are out of sight!
Taking a selfie maybe?
(The fed govt has zero business operating parks)
Yes, the Feds have no business operating Parks, but they are able to control the land on which the parks reside. The government owns more land, that anyone can imagine, for the reason that if they own it, you cannot. Our government has come up with a policy called “highest and best use.” This policy is/will be used to prevent private ownership of land. In reality, the land that is owned privately, is at the pleasure of the government. One does not own land to use any way he or she desires. It is subject to government, local, state or Federal, approval and regulations.
The government shutdown did nothing to change the laws of gravity. I’m just sayin’.
Trucking through the night about 4-5 years ago, I was listening to “coast to coast am” (kook to kook). George Noory was interviewing an expert on people that go missing without a trace in the Nat Parks. (It helped to keep me wide awake.) For family to lose members is tragic, and without closure is very sad.
Then they went to break for ads. The bumper song was “Photograph” by Ringo. I thought that was appropriate. They came back from break with “Another park another Sunday” by the doobie brothers. I admit I did chuckle for a moment at the programmer choice.
What a dishonest title for an article!!!
Yeah, the federal worker that's usually holding the net at the bottom of the cliff wasn't there so she died.
No; it was the worker at the TOP that usually put's the leashes on the 14 yos and younger.
I've BEEN to this overlook and there is NO 'federal worker' there at all!
The BIG one with HUNDREADS of warning signs about the dangerous wildlife?
I've seen the traffic stopped because of bison or elk and idiots getting out of their cars to let the kids pet the animals!!
If there wasn’t a shutdown, Lizzie Warren would have been at the bottom of the Canyon with a Trampoline.
I did that in late March, 1963, on a Honda 50cc motorcycle.
Followed a snowplow down the hill...
Lot of really stupid people in that photo.
You are thinking of Yellowstone. No Bison in Yosemite.
by Michael Patrick Ghiglieri and Charles R. Farabee
Puma Press, 2007, 608 pages
"Two veterans of Sierra Nevada wilderness chronicle the first comprehensive history of fatal misadventures in Yosemite National Park from the time of the 1849 'discovery' of Yosemite Valley up to visitors falling off its giant waterfalls in the 21st century. The accounts of the nearly 900 people who have met untimely deaths in Yosemite offer the most astounding array of adventures, misadventures, history, and life-saving lessons between two covers"
I cannot even LOOK at that pic——I have a dreadful fear of heights.
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How many deaths occur in the National Park system during a “normal” two week period?
I’m guessing >3.
Partial Government shutdowns save lives.
Just finished it a month or so ago. Very good read.
The one last week in the Smokies where the tree fell on the woman and killed her was weather related caused by climate change thus Trump’s fault.
Yep. I live right next to RMNP and there are several deaths every year.
All while the government is running with the tax-dollar throttle wide open.
I’ve been there...I have pictures of the overlook...park rangers are a speck of salt to the park it is so big...rangers don’t stop people from falling.
That’s a good idea. I hear they’ve
run out of toilet paper at the
parks. I’d rather have ink than
stink...
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