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hit the link below....it takes about 1 minute,,,a letter is sent to the Governor and others if you wish to express your opposition to the state closure of 220 parks.....Check the list, you will be amazed at how many local parks are affected... http://ga3.org/campaign/budget_may09
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I'm worried Bodie's going to get trashed.
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Thanks for the link bro. This is super important everyone needs to sign this if that's the least they do. I spent this last Saturday Mtn Biking in Chino Hills State Park and cannot accept the fact that it might not be there for future generations. Unaceptable!!!
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9 parks in San Diego County are on the chopping block.. including Anza-Borrega and Torrey Pines...
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." -Marcel Proust
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The two parks of the many on the list that are near and dear to me are the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve and Red Rock Canyon SP. Anyone driving up to the Sierra/395 from either the L.A. basin or the Antelope Valley via SR 14 goes through Red Rock Canyon SP on their way up. It's one of my favorite non-Sierra hiking areas when I'm out there. The Poppy Reserve is only "in season" during poppy season, but it's an unique place in its own right. Had my first rattlesnake encounter there a couple of years ago.
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that website makes it sound like the parks will be closed FOREVER. thats not the case. the parks will just be closed temporarily.
instead of sending a letter to the govenor send one to a state senator and tell them to stop spending money like drunk socialists.
california is run by a bunch of commie-socialists and now we are reaping what we sow.
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Folks, Sorry if I offend anyone with this.
1. I'm not sure this is the right venue to discuss the issue of State Park closures.
2. This most likely is going to be a temporary thing, the parks are not going to go away, just the rangers and the pay stations at the entrance to these hallowed grounds. Can they really stop us from hiking around on public lands? It would cost them just as much to set up a Park Gestapo as it would to keep these parks opened. We all agree that these are extraordinary times and I'm sure that we also would agree that with better management of the funds that they have been given that we probably would not be having this discussion. The State will never be satisfied.
3. While points 1 and 2 may be open to debate this quote is not. “The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.” Victor Frankl
Now, let's enjoy the Mountain they can't touch !
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california is run by a bunch of commie-socialists and now we are reaping what we sow. Oh, good. We've gotten to the content-free name-calling stage.
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I didn't know Anza Borrego was on that list. I grew up there. Every weekend. My parents' camping club was called the Roadrunners.
The park won't close, it'll just be unsupervised. Maybe that's good, maybe not. Mono Lake South Tufa usually is unsupervised most of the year.
I think, in all my infinite wisdom, that the governator is proposing the worst scenario to make a lesser option more palatable.
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