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Rhodo-Router
Trad climber
Otto, NC
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 17, 2006 - 05:31pm PT
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Hey gang--
Liberally cribbed from the Access Fund website is my comment letter. Please feel free to adapt it and comment your own self before midnight tonight!
See also: http://parkplanning.nps.gov/projectHome.cfm?projectId=13746
February 16, 2006
Bernard Fagan, Room 7252
National Park Service Office of Policy
1849 C Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20240
RE: National Park Service Proposed 2005 Management Policies Revision
Dear Mr. Fagan: This letter comments on the National Park Service’s (NPS) 2005 draft Management Policies (draft MPs).
As a citizen, park user, and employee of an NPS concession (Outward Bound Wilderness), I urge you to abandon the idea of revising the 2001 Management Policies. The existing policies serve to preserve the Parks’ unspoiled character, if conscientiously followed. The current 2001 MPs already hold the promise of ensuring appropriate public access to our parklands while maintaining the NPS’s preservation mission.
It is difficult to see this premature revision as anything but a cynical attempt on the part of the current administration to prostitute our natural heritage to current and would-be NPS concessionaires in return for their political and financial support.
I fear that the proposed revision to the 2005 NPS management polices could lead to the following:
• A lessened impairment standard that guides NPS efforts to protect park resources for future generations, and changes to the NPS mission by seeking to balance “park purposes” which could improperly increase administrative developments and allow for previously unauthorized uses. See section 1.4.3 (2005).
• A reduction in scientific justifications for park management decisions which could allow for arbitrary management and easier impairment of park resources. See section 8.1.2 and 8.2.2 (2005).
• A weakening of protections for air quality, water and wildlife which could in turn negatively affect the experiences of all that visit the parks to enjoy their unique environments. See section 8.2 and section 4 (2005).
• The proposed policies would define “public use” as the primary purpose of wilderness which in turn downplays the preservation of wilderness character as the singular statutory purpose of the Wilderness Act. Moreover, the proposed policies would emphasize visitor safety as a major goal of wilderness management, and allow new administrative developments in wilderness. These developments could significantly alter the wilderness climbing experience that the Access Fund seeks to protect. See section 6.2 and 6.3.1 (2005).
The mission of the National Park Service is to preserve our national parks unimpaired for future generations. The proposed policy revisions may lead to a fundamental change in park mission and management potentially resulting in widespread impacts to our parks. Potential changes include impacts to the peace and tranquility, or the natural soundscapes, increased motorized recreation, weakened protections for air and water quality, and less opportunities for wilderness experiences.
People are paying attention. Back off.
Sincerely,
Rob Dillon
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Spinmaster K-Rove
Trad climber
Stuck Under the Kor Roof
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Feb 18, 2006 - 03:14pm PT
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Well for starters, Rajmit if you are on this forum and gov't screwing up our public land doesnt concern you then you should probably be somewhere else. Second, um...no..it doesn't make them worse than the Taliban. You really need to do some research on the Taliban if you're gonna make those comparisons. It DOES however raise serious concerns about their concern for our national heritage.
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Feb 18, 2006 - 03:30pm PT
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All political power structures act according to the same self-serving laws, tending to the same self-serving ends, whether they are Taliban, Soviet, National Socialist, Republican or Social Democrat. Only the slogans change. Reforming those tendencies all has to do with what little you are are able do about it. Keep writing those letters.
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Feb 18, 2006 - 04:37pm PT
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These are the same players that tried to pull this same crap under Harding-Coolidge-Hoover. This "get yours now rugged individualist stuff" sounds too much like the American West a hundred years ago during Reconstruction. Is that when the Republican Party earned its wings as the Party of corruption? Is the only way to end this mind set another Great Depression? I hope not . . . .
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Spinmaster K-Rove
Trad climber
Stuck Under the Kor Roof
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Feb 18, 2006 - 04:48pm PT
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Rajmit I was adressing both your points. They were perfect extremes of each other and both rediculous.
"Also, it truly does not matter whether or not the land will be sold because Washington will not sell the land immediately. It will occur over a long period of time if they were to sell the land. "
OK...where do you REALLY go to college? Greenfield Community College? Cambridge Dogcatcher Academy? You better be trolling cause that certainly ranks in top 5 of most inane things said on Supertaco...and that is saying something.
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