Any day I will trade some paddling for a reduction in the snowmobiles in Yellowstone.
Raúl Grijalva
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Raúl Manuel Grijalva is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Arizona's 3rd congressional district since 2003. A member of the Democratic Party, Grijalva has been an advocate for environmental protection, education, and healthcare reform throughout his tenure in Congress. He has played a significant role in various legislative initiatives, particularly those aimed at addressing climate change and promoting social justice.
Accepting that there is no non-disappearance entirely of the Federal role, who pays the bills?
If anything is to be learned from the unnecessary and damaging government shutdown it is that Americans love their national parks and public lands.
this whole discussion is about, and appropriately so, a value judgment, that the parks are a value, economic, aesthetically, to the States.
Guess what. National parks are part of the Federal Government, and when you shut down the government, you also shut down the parks.
I feel like any of those 14 percent in particular are acceptable for paddling.
The idea that state park officials... could readily step into the shoes of the National Park Service... is simply incorrect.
Using the threat of another Federal shutdown as an excuse to promote a State takeover of national parks is cynical at best.





