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  • 5/06/2008 9:59 am - Report Shows Visiting National Parks Could be Hazardous to Your Health : [i]"What fatigues me -- and a number of other NPT readers I've spoken with -- is that you repeatedly (and I suspect deliberately) fail to make the necessary distinction between the politically-appointed masters of the NPS and the public servants who work in the trenches despite those masters to achieve ...
  • 5/05/2008 6:23 am - Report Shows Visiting National Parks Could be Hazardous to Your Health : Since there is at present an existing backlog of [i]"between $9.6 billion and $17.3 billion"[/i] I wonder whose position is the more laughable Mr. Devil? Every poll that is taken these days shows that [i]"we the people"[/i] are overwhelmingly against [i]"massive military programs and overseas adventures"[/i]. Yet does this make ...
  • 5/04/2008 10:46 am - Report Shows Visiting National Parks Could be Hazardous to Your Health : Kurt----I understood and respected your position. My hiatus had more to do with a lack of interest in continuing to comment since, as you noted, I had made my point about the bureaucratic mismanagement of the parks quite clear. Once the discussion of what I feel is the most compelling ...
  • 5/04/2008 9:56 am - Report Shows Visiting National Parks Could be Hazardous to Your Health : Mr. Longstreet my suggestion is the same as it has always been: DECENTRALIZE! Start with a commission to determine which parks are essentially political pork (the Steamtowns and such) and find out if there are any municipalities, private non-profit trusts or subject focused preservation societies that would be interested in ...
  • 5/03/2008 4:00 pm - Report Shows Visiting National Parks Could be Hazardous to Your Health : The real problem in a nutshell can be gleaned from a key quote in Kurt's article which strikes at the very heart of the problem: [i]"When this report came out, the secretary deputized a deputy secretary to immediately create a task force to conduct an expedited review of its findings ...
  • 3/28/2008 7:36 pm - Decommissioning National Parks: Some History, And Some Ominous Clouds : I have been on a hiatus from commenting on this website due to a request that I got from the webmaster of said website that I let up on my view that the NPS is essentially a politically motivated, self-serving, self-perpetuating myopic bureaucracy. For good or for ill I still ...
  • 12/13/2007 7:39 am - Conservation Groups Urge National Park Service to Reinstate Jet Ski Bans : The bottom line is that Anonymous and Mr. Smith are attempting to neutralize two critics of the current system by labeling their postings as nothing more than blatant negativity. If the truth be known Frank and I have repeatedly made suggestions and shared our ideas for forging a different path ...
  • 12/12/2007 5:49 pm - Conservation Groups Urge National Park Service to Reinstate Jet Ski Bans : I'd only point out that Superintendent Longstreet was also loudly lamenting the negative politics of an uncaring Congress saddling the NPS with inappropriate parks. He seems to agree with me on at least a few things. Kurt and Jeremy are free to ask me to stop contributing if they feel ...
  • 12/12/2007 9:18 am - Conservation Groups Urge National Park Service to Reinstate Jet Ski Bans : Or maybe the creative tension would create something dynamic and worthwhile. It's always a big mistake to think success comes from marching in lockstep to a rigid set of management plans and top-down policy initiatives. In fact if you look around at many of the world's truly successful organizations they ...
  • 12/12/2007 8:32 am - Conservation Groups Urge National Park Service to Reinstate Jet Ski Bans : Superintendent Longstreet in response to your statement: [i]"I suggest you sharpen your arrows for the Congress, which inserted them into the National Park System, rather than at the employees of those parks, who you seem to want to fall on their swords, time and time again"[/i], I'd like to say ...