Time writes a pretty sobering article about the lengths to which our state parks are being put at risk by our government's fiscal irresponsibility. California (who in my opinion is the leading indicator for our entire country) is the first to close down less popular portions of our state forests and parks
Among some hikers in the San Francisco Bay Area, the quad-straining trail to the summit of 4,344-ft. Mount St. Helena near Calistoga, Calif., is known as "the stairway to heaven" for its panoramic views of the Napa and Sonoma valleys. These views, however, soon may be off-limits to visitors — the latest victim of the Golden State's staggering budget crisis. The trail sits within Robert Louis Stevenson State Park, one of up to 100 state parks in California that might be closed by Labor Day to help close a budget gap of $26 billion. While the Department of Parks and Recreation isn't releasing a list of potential sites on the chopping block, the stairway-to-heaven park likely is at risk because it has some of the lowest attendance figures in Northern California.
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"The situation is still very serious," says Ruth Coleman, the state's director of parks. "We're charged with protecting these natural treasures and making them available to the public, but for the first time ever, we simply don't know how we're going to do that without closing some parks for good."
The solution is to stop spending like crazy trying to solve immensely complex problems that have no real business being run by the government and focus on the aspects that do well under the government umbrella, like our state parks.
Just makes me angry....
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State parks = state gov't. This is really an argument to bail out california, which I fully agree with!
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