[SierraWasp]

Oh kay... Let me suggest you git offa yer a$$ and go to the PBS website and get you own copy of the Frontline program from over a decade ago called "FOR THE GOOD OF ALL."

Then git back to us and tell us how we should feel about what the NPS did to all those citizen/property owners and small businessmen of the Cayahoga Valley in northern OH!!!

[XRdsRev]

With all due respect, why do you guys constantly mix up National Parks with National Heritage Areas ? Legally they are totally different entities. National Heritage Areas are not National Parks, not even close (although a National Heritage Area can have an existing National Park within its borders).

National Heritage Areas are designed to preserve private property while also preserving whatever it is that the area is supposed to be about.

National Heritage Areas are basically and eastern phenomenon. These are areas that are not suitable for National parks. There currently are 27 National Heritage Areas which operate with varying levels of success. They are much different from National Parks and rely on local support to keep them running. If the locals don't like them, they cannot survive.