I just wanna talk to whoever thought this was a good idea
This is probably even more shady than it seems. They raise the rates and then less people go. Low attendance numbers leads to that park getting less attention and less money. This discourages new parks and devalues current parks. Then the government can be like “lol people don’t care about nature let’s drill” Parks and libraries should be free places for people to enrich themselves, but smart sheep aren’t worth anything 🐑
^^^This. It’s why they’re also slashing park funding. According to the linked article, the current budget proposal includes:
Cutting base operating funding by $132 million, affecting at least
90 percent of parks. This includes cuts to law enforcement, health and
safety, natural and cultural resource projects, and volunteer and youth
programs.
Cutting 1,242 staff positions.
A 37 percent cut to the Historic Preservation Fund.
A drastic cut to federal Land and Water Conservation Fund, which
helps parks purchase private lands within park boundaries from willing
sellers that would otherwise be vulnerable to inappropriate commercial
or residential development.
Elimination of the National Heritage Area program, which preserves
large historic landscapes managed through innovative partnerships.
Combined with the drastic rate hike, it’s hard to see this as anything other than a ploy to force park closures.
This proposal is currently open for public comments and will be open until November 23.
Comments can be written by anyone. You don’t have to live in America.
Please write a comment saying how much you love the parks or a certain park or why you think this is a bad idea. If you don’t live in America write something about how you travel here to see the parks or how you wish that your country had a park service like America (the American government loves having its ego stroked)
Public comments are the only thing the park service is going to see. They aren’t going to see how many notes this post gets, they’re going to look at that comments page to see how many people they would tick off it they did this. So please, reblog this post but go comment, it’s the only way to let the parks service know how you feel.
Traditional Witchcraft is a post modern term that indicates irreligious countercultural and animist magical practices that are rooted in historical narratives of folk spirituality.
I would agree. I also want to add a bit, not just for the definition, but for clarification. I got some asks yesterday that wondered if trad witches were dark and only practiced baneful magic because that’s what witchcraft was percieved as in the past. Whilst many of us are perceived as dark, as there are some that cling to it, it’s simply because many have eliminated the stark lines between ‘dark’ and ‘light’. Distinguishing against what is ‘dark’ and ‘light’ magic no longer becomes pertinent. The witch is known to be a wild figure. In that aspect of wilderness, preconceived notions of what is good and what is evil melt away to reveal a web of shifting hues and patterns. The Wilderness is known to be a place that one should exercise caution in, but it also sustains and gives to those who work alongside it. It’s inexplicably beautiful in its inability to be labeled.
I wouldn’t call traditional witchcraft dark. I’d call it wild.
I’m reading on old superstitions and:
“Do not go out collecting nuts on Sept 14th, holy Rood Day, as the devil will be out nutting too!”
September 14th: the day the Devil nuts
Scottish composer James MacMillan (b. 1959) wrote a piece for orchestra entitled The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, based, of course, on the story of Gowdie’s trial. I used to listen to this a lot in college, before I got into witchcraft. It’s funny how life works out sometimes. I’m listening to it again for the first time in several years with a renewed appreciation for it.
The Carving Witch 