national parks

The idea was brought up in this thread. So what do you think of it? Could The Grand Canyon use a roller coaster or two to bring in more people? What if it would make way more money for the owners to just throw a dam across Yosemite Valley? And those Giant Sequoia, surely they are worth a bundle...

Apparently not only can the administration of the last eight years prevent Afghanistan from becoming the largest supplier of heroin in the world it would appear they have also proved themselves either inept or complicit in the widening destruction and pollution of America's national parks by...

So much for funding the national parks: http://groups.google.com/group/parklandsupdate (BTW: the positions cut were a museum curator & geologist, rather than 2 paleontologists, but both worked with the fossil collections as noted). (for info on the park, see www.nps.gov/dino)