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| Opportunist:
Is it turning into a park or is it going to be governed by the National Park service? |
| TONTO:
Turned into a park. Basicaly it comes down to the fact that the tourist dollars never came through as the pen pushers in olympia had hoped.All these visitor centers where built and then it was dumpeed into the forest service's lap.The forest service can't afford to maintain these centers(cold water ridge visitor center was just closed indefenatly this year do to lack of maintanance funds)so it has been proposed that it should become a national park.This would insure federal money to maintain these facilities. This realy irks me,I have always hoped that the public would be allowed more recreational access to the area as the volcano gawkers finaly got bored with it,but as a national park it would be just the opposite.Some of my fondest childhood memories have been of the time I spent there,pre-eruption,and have always held on to the hope that some day I would be alowed to once again pull a nice fat rainbow from spirit lake.If this proposal goes through that will never happen,as well as lost hunting oppertunity as well. I urge all who would like to keep the dream of increased recreational access to the area alive to contact their representatives and voice their displeasure with this push to turn it over to the National Parks system. |
| Mike450r:
From what I have read the National Park Service is low on funding so hopefully this goes nowhere. My suggestion is that all members of this site that belong to Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation shoot off some letters, we really need a powewrful lobbying group on our side with this one or it will just get crammed down our throats. |
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