EVIL - National Park proposed rule changes

The NYTimes has a editorial, Destroying the National Parks, on a leaked proposal to systematically and comprehensively alter the rules, but not the laws, under which the national parks operate. As the rules, not the laws, do much of the protecting this is some very shocking reading. Written by a former a Congressional aide to Dick Cheney the "rewrite would open up nearly every park in the nation to off-road vehicles, snowmobiles and Jet Skis."

More information is available from The Coalition of National Park Service Retirees website and an MSNBC article . The MSNBC article mentions that "Grazing and mining would be elevated to "park purposes," thus ensuring their continuation." and the NPS Retirees site has huge amounts of info and some inflammatory examples. Nevertheless - changes to protection policies requiring proof of irreversible damage before measures are taken are scary enough even without the examples.

As the NYTimes editorial concludes:

In short, this is not a policy for protecting the parks. It is a policy for destroying them.

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