Sad state of national parks and public lands.
On our way to Lassen Volcanic National Park. On a national forest rest stop and vista point, wifey went to the rest room. But it was posted "Closed due to lack of funding." And down on these...
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cptqueeg wrote:azdryheat wrote:
With millions of visitors to our national parks it's hard to believe we can't turn a profit. Actually it is very believable because our government bureaucrats only know how to spend, spend, spend. Make a buck? Forget it. Give the parks over to private management and watch them flourish. Maybe we could even get RV areas large enuf for big rigs.
Nobody said they weren't making a profit. As I explained the revenue goes to the general fund and then it's appropriated back or NOT to the USFS to run the NF system, the BLM for BLM lands, and NP Service for the Parks.
True dat!
And with the increased revenues out of public lands (except the Bundys of this country who refused to pay up for their grazing lands), the federal governments are squeezing them of fund through decreasing budget allocations.
That's killing the goose that lays the golden egg as visitors and tourists sees the unmaintained and dilapidated facilities.
Last year in Yosemite, one campground that I used to stay, has broken tables and unmaintained eroded roadway where several campsite cannot be used. This is another situation I saw in Olympic National Forest.
One of the programs that I am seeing less and less are those academic and scientist rangers giving visitors, specially the youth, presentations about the ecology, geology and rare wildlife of the specific parks.
