Our National Parks Might Become a Gated Community

typhlonectes:

Secretary Zinke’s proposal to increase entry fees could make parks an exclusive playground

The mission of America’s national parks seems pretty clear.
Legislation establishing the National Park Service, passed just over a
century ago, said the parks and monuments should “conserve the scenery
and the natural and historic objects and the wild life” of parks and
monuments “by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment
of future generations.” Such places should be widely open to visitors.
The Park Service is supposed to ensure that nothing “interfere[s] with
free access … by the public.”

But somehow the people who now
oversee the national parks didn’t get the memo. They’re hoping to jack
up entry fees at some of the most iconic parks by such enormous
percentages that those places will no doubt become less accessible to
many…

TAKE ACTION:  $70 to Enter a National Park? Say NO!

Instead
of keeping our parks accessible to all, the Trump administration wants
to increase park fees by more than double, while making it easier and
cheaper for the fossil fuel industry to drill. Say no way

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Our National Parks Might Become a Gated Community