Mission creep.
Since they claim to be perennially short of funds, and since many of the most popular parks are overflowing during the summer, not sure just what kind of urban parks they'll be establishing. Out of over 400 units in the Park Service national parks, monuments, seashores and rivers account for about 175, the rest being mostly historical Sites, monuments, battlefields, most of which are in or near urban areas. Not neglected, though there are no national squirrel, raccoon and coyote preserves in urban areas so I suppose there's potential. I suspect this is really meant to address the low attendance by minorities at parks. Unfortunate, but it is there choice. Could make a park out of Detroit, America's Past Industrial Might National Historical Site. Perhaps Urban Crime National Historical Site in Chicago. Or should that be a Battlefield
Just another way expand gub’mint and the “King’s Land”.
I would love to see the word “diversity” banished from the modern-day lexicon.
Yellowstone is fine, but when you've seen one geyser, you've seen then all. And the feds already own more mountains than any of us could hope to climb. Looking at the funding and geographical balance, historic preservation is sadly underserved in the NPS.
The tricky issue will be coordinating with state and local park authorities. I can point to a great many sites with national historical and cultural significance that should be saved. But whether the feds or a local agency should do the job is a different issue. If a stronger federal-state partnership enhances preservation, great. If a bigger federal role induces states and localities to pull back and wait for free money from Washington, it could be counterproductive.
Mount Vernon is not a government-run site but it's near a major city and easy to get to. I was there last year. There were a lot of foreign tourists but very few black Americans. If people don't want to go, it's their loss.
“city diversity”
In the brave new world we live in, “diversity” means exclusion of certain unfavored groups. You can, and maybe should, be identical and diverse at the same time.
They made the area of the old Pullman factory in Chicago a national monument last year. It’s an interesting area and probably deserves preservation. It has a place in African-American history. The neighborhood is sketchy when you get beyond the gentrified area adjacent to the monument, and the neighborhoods you pass through to get there are among the worst in the city. The day I visited, there were a handful of visitors, all of us white. Part of the monument is the interesting Pullman Porters Museum. My son, daughter-in-law, and I had the place to ourselves.
[sigh]....I guess Obama and the Democrat Party have to inject race and politics into absolutely friggin’ EVERYTHING!!
“Until I was 20, I didn’t know national parks existed,” she told me.”
Then you are a moron and no doubt a Hillary voter.
The Missouri Conservation Commission used to be really solid and a pretty good steward of the state’s resources. Then they got a 1/8th percent sales tax passed by voter initiative. Now they have money coming out the wazoo to buy up land and drive up its price and promote social projects. Now they’re just another government boondoggle.
I’m 100% on board with this new “urban agenda” for the National Park Service. Maybe it will keep these urbanites at home so they don’t bother me in the mountains. LOL.
The gambit is but yet another valve and pipe to drain the treasury into politically auspicious pockets
The Democrat party is a criminal enterprise
People will flock to the inner cities! /s
Fire them all and hire people who will do their job without all this mumbo jumbo pansy crap.
There are more white Americans alive today than ever. The demographics have not radically shifted. We were invaded.
Fedzilla is just like any other competitive organization: they want to grow sales 10% per year without regard to environmental damage. They need to keep their ponzi pension schemes going. If the government schools, jails, and free hospitals start emptying out then Fedzilla imports new customers no matter how problematic they are.