Rewrite of National Park Service Rules would abandon "Preservation" of American's 388 crown jewels

Boys on snowmobiles.

The Coalition of National Park Service Retirees (CNPSR), watchdog group concerned with the state of the national parks in the United States sent out a press release about "under-the-radar" proposed changes in NPS regulations that could have tremendous negative impact on the national parks--think more logging, more snowmobiles, less nature...

From the press release:

An ongoing and secret Interior Department attempt to rewrite and override 90 years of laws, rules and court rulings governing the 388 sites in the U.S. National Park System would "hijack" the American's national parks, leaving them wide open for what are now barred uses and making it extremely unlikely that the sites would survive as unspoiled treasures for future generations of Americans, according to the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees (CNPSR), which is a watchdog group of 410 NPS veterans accounting for 12,000 years of collective park management experience.

Just days prior to the White House conference on the environment to be held August 28-31, 2005 in St. Louis, MO, CNPSR today released a redlined version of the Interior Department's radical rewrite of the "rulebook" for the National Park Service. Spearheaded by a political appointee who was the former head of the Cody, WY, Chamber of Commerce, the hundreds of proposed changes to NPS procedures have been drawn up with no input by Congress, the public or the superintendents of national parks. The draft document is being made available on the Web by CNPSR. Although the Interior Department document is a work in progress that will continue to change, it is considered by NPS insiders, Coalition members and other concerned parties to be an accurate and extremely revealing expression of the true intentions of the political appointees now running the U.S. Department of Interior. ... Check out the website for more information.
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