[cogitator]

If the NPS does not have the funds to take care of what it already owns, then stop their push to take and take more private lands for more parks! Let it be so until all of our now National Parks are brought up to the standards they should be, were there is enough service personal to take care of the already owned lands, and where this maintainence will be maintained!

A previous poster also referred to this. What/where are recent private land purchases that have been turned into National Parks or Monuments, and how much was the outlay? I'm asking because I don't know.

[countrydummy]

Just as an example I will use our situtation. I live near Hinton, WV along the New River. The NPS is trying very hard to gain all the lands in what was made the New River Gorge National River Area-----land owned by the NPS in the area is managed by the NPS.....yet now they want all the land, mine included. 70,000 acres more for the NPS and they can't take care of what they have already. Now this is just my area of WV, this is happening all over WV in different areas, as well as all across the US.....