wot was i saying about ferris wheels in yosemite the other day...?

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Proposal to change national-park rules stirring up controversy

 

National parks are cool and all, but you know what they really need? More people

on cell phones! That -- along with more snowmobiling and off-roading -- could

happen under revisions to National Park Service policy proposed by Bush

appointee Paul Hoffman, deputy assistant secretary of the interior. His plan,

leaked to the press this week, would cut back on environmental protections on

numerous fronts, from allowing cell-phone towers to reducing air quality

standards to permitting more mining and grazing. While the Department of

Interior is trying to cast the proposal as a mere effort at dialogue, past and

present National Park Service employees aren't buying it. A group of 400 NPS

retirees has announced a campaign to block the changes, and current directors

are openly voicing dismay over them. Says J. T. Reynolds, superintendent of

Death Valley National Park, " They are changing the whole nature of who we are

and what we have been. I hope the public understands that this is a threat to

their heritage. "

 

 

straight to the source: Los Angeles Times, Julie Cart, 26 Aug 2005

 

a blinding flash

hotter than the sun

dead bodies lie across the path

the radiation colors the air

finishing one by one