I guess they really do -- "want to take 'their' country back" ...
New Congress Begins Anti-Environment Attack With ‘No More National Parks’ Bill
by Claire Moser, thinkprogress.org -- Jan 16, 2015
Earlier this week, Rep. Don Young (R-AK) introduced a bill to strip current and future presidents’ authority to designate national monuments, proposing an overhaul to a law that presidents have used for nearly a century to protect some of the country’s most iconic and treasured places.
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Sixteen presidents, both Republicans and Democrats, have used the Antiquities Act to permanently protect public lands and historic sites since the Act’s passage in 1906. Some of America’s most beloved and iconic landmarks, like the Grand Tetons and Arches National Park, were originally protected as national monuments under the Act. President Obama recently used the Act for the 13th time in his presidency to protect the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument outside of Los Angeles.
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We apparently don't need no more National Parks,
like Mt Rainier in Washington state:
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[ All photos in this post were taken by yours truly, jamess. I hope you like them. ]
Old school Conservatives, used to celebrate the conservation of our Natural Heritage.
New school Conservatives, now look to the how many Natural Resources will be out their extraction plans, every time a National Monument or Park is "designated" ...
The Wilderness Act: A big 50th anniversary for Washington
by Joel Connelly, seattlepi.com -- Sept 3, 2014
Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers stood proudly behind President Lyndon Johnson a half-century ago, as LBJ signed the Wilderness Act, creating a legal definition of lands “where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.”
The act’s impact has been felt across Washington, from the Juniper Dunes of Franklin County to Olympic summits seen from Seattle, to the “land of 600 lakes” — the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, in Seattle’s backyard.
The state felt a succession of great wilderness battles, from the early 1960s through passage of the million-acre Washington Wilderness Act of 1984.
The confrontations saw lineups of horn-blasting logging trucks, creation of timber industry front groups, and publication of glossy books by conservationists fighting to preserve the “crown jewels” of natural Washington. Then-Gov. Dan Evans used a picture book in 1976 to persuade President Gerald Ford to sign the 393,000-acre Alpine Lakes Wilderness bill.
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New school Conservatives apparently want to know,
what "opportunities" are lost -- whenever Public Lands, suddenly become "
public permanently" ...
far from the prying private hands ...
What is the "lost," when an alpine wilderness belongs to everyone "for posterity" ... like the Alpine Lakes Wilderness of Washington state, now does:
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I've heard more than one Conservative say (in all seriousness): "Afterall, you can't eat the View" ...
According to their privatize-everything school -- we apparently don't need no more National Parks, like those to be discovered on the road to Denali, in Alaska either:
Heck, these new school Conservatives would even "sell tickets" to the Northern Lights ...
If they could just figure out how, to the 'corner the market' on the View.
