Park Service Follies

CBS News ^ | Sept. 9, 2007 | Bob Schieffer

[trooprally]

Apparently we signed it back in Nov. 2005# 257.

Thanks for posting it.

[Mr] T

[trooprally]

Thanks Albion signed and sent a message.
[Mrs T]

[BillF]

I know that the US Forest Service (FS) has the smokejumpers or firefighters, but who pays if their services are needed in a National Park?

Wouldn’t the Park Service pay the costs associated with them if they are brought in to fight a fire in a National Park?

Federal agencies billing other agencies or departments is not an uncommon thing in the government.

I know someone who works for USDA, but his expertise was loaned to NOAA with logistics support for his research provided by USAF. USAF was simply supplying airplanes and pilots to carry airborne experiments. AF billed NOAA for the expense associated with the AF flying the other agency’s experiment. USDA billed NOAA for borrowing its employee.

Similarly, USDA friend worked with NASA in cooperative venture to get agricultural data from NASA satellites. I’m pretty sure that USDA paid NASA for NASA’s part in getting the data.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I believe I already signed that petition, but I encourage others to sign on and stop that crescent-shaped obscenity.

[3D-JOY]

Glad to sign it...it is a travesty.

Simple change to a heart or any other shape is easy!

[freema]

For those who want to sign a petition to change the plans for the United 93 Memorial before it becomes a Muslim monument, here is the link: http://www.petitiononline.com/NOCRSCNT/petition.html

Important ping. Please sign on.

[sergeantdave]

This short article from last year supports your contention about unsafe parks -

The US Senate is considering legislation that would allow the American serf to legally carry concealed arms in the federal socialist national parks.

This sensible idea is being met with bleats from castrated sheep infesting the eastern big cities.

The purse-carrying metrosexuals at the New York Times, for one, insisted that bearing arms is only allowed for the national guard. The typical New York eco-fascist snob expects individuals to lie down before the sacred grizzly, offer their worthless body to the big city eco-fascist god Gaia and die.

Disregarding the silly prattle from the wimps, we know that concealed carry is a sure-fire way to protect yourself from national park predators, both the four and two-legged kinds.

Many national parks, especially those in the southwest, are roads for criminals who smuggle drugs and illegal aliens. Crime like robbery and rape is also increasing in our national parks. Concealed carry would place scumbags on notice that their next intended victim might ventilate them.

Besides, there aren’t enough rangers to protect everyone and never will be. Nor should we need to check our civil right to bear arms at the park’s gate. And we certainly aren’t meant to be dinner for a grizzly.

Here are the 10 most dangerous parks:
1. Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona
2. Amistad National Recreation Area, Texas
3. Big Bend National Park, Texas
4. Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada/Arizona
5. Coronado National Memorial Arizona
6. Biscayne National Park, Florida
7. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
8. Delaware Water Gap, New Jersey/Pennsylvania
9. Edison National Historic Site, New Jersey
10. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Source: U.S. Park Rangers Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police

[AuntB]

Your list is probably right on. I might add, my neighborhood, which is where the photos in the article I posted were taken.