The Chief wrote:dskoon wrote:You seem to be beating your dead horse, Chief. And your photos are just a matter of perspective, ie, your perspective. But that's ok. . .
Really!
Seems that others on this thread feel and have the perspective as I do. Our perspective.
Here's a good one.
Golden Eagle Pass in the late 80's was all of
15.00.Today....
It no longer is the GE Pass rather the America the Beautiful – National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass – Annual Pass -
Cost $80.The public shitters in TM, YNP, Arches, Zion to name a few, were last upgraded in the early 80's at best. But I always seem to notice that the NPS Admin Buildings in the above Parks are continuously being upgraded and the Park Officials always drive the most recent years vehicles.
Yes, others do, in fact, share your perspective. You just keep showing pics of crowds and development, as if that was the only thing going on in a Nat'l. park.
Yes, everything goes up in price over the years; no doubt about it. Look at the price of gasoline, or a movie.
The park service is a govt. run entity, so it's going to have those govt. $$-laced projects, upgrading, etc. inherently built into it.
Easy enough to find flaws in the system, and dislike it if you must. That's fine.
I for one, but am not alone, find these set-asided islands of natural features invaluable, and am very thankful for the foresight shown by some hard-working heroes, way back when, to fight developmental interests, such as the groups who wanted to mine Grand Canyon. I'd rather have a vistior's center on the south rim, and accompanying parking lot, along with a preserved Grand Canyon, than a canyon full of mines and slew runoff. Same goes for the giant Sequoias of the Sierra. They'd be gone by now if they hadn't been protected. All tradeoffs.
I do find it ironic, though, that you continue to talk about crowds, development, over-pricing, etc. etc. as reasons you dislike, and seemingly, will not support parks by going there, but yet you work(or have worked), in the winter, at a major ski area such as Mammoth. Talk about crowds and overpricing and paving and development! Geez!
But, I guess it's all a choice.