Re: Idea for a new national park in New Mexico
Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 11:47 pm
National Parks should be unique.
There is NOTHING unique about Bubba's proposed national park in plain-jane average hills and forests New Mexico. Its why Sawtooth is not a National Park. Nothing unique. Great place(been there), but not unique.
Likewise I don't believe the Grand Staircase National Monument should be a preserve either. It has nothing unique that has not already been preserved in Canyon Lands, Grand Canyon, Zion, Capital Reef, or some of the local Utah State Parks.
Personally, I could go for expansion of some national Parks to preserve the whole range of eco systems for true biodiversity, but wholesale new ones? All the unique places have already been made into parks LONG ago. If not national parks, then state parks. LONG ago.
This isn't 1900 or even 1960... A new park in NM is absurd.
There is NOTHING unique about Bubba's proposed national park in plain-jane average hills and forests New Mexico. Its why Sawtooth is not a National Park. Nothing unique. Great place(been there), but not unique.
Likewise I don't believe the Grand Staircase National Monument should be a preserve either. It has nothing unique that has not already been preserved in Canyon Lands, Grand Canyon, Zion, Capital Reef, or some of the local Utah State Parks.
Personally, I could go for expansion of some national Parks to preserve the whole range of eco systems for true biodiversity, but wholesale new ones? All the unique places have already been made into parks LONG ago. If not national parks, then state parks. LONG ago.
This isn't 1900 or even 1960... A new park in NM is absurd.