Pristine wilderness meets Britney Spears ?

“For years the National Park Service has been in the business of preserving that nature. But according to internal documents leaked today, recreation may soon replace preservation. Ideas include holding concerts on lands managed by the National Park Service. Allowing snowmobiles to ride on trails.

Click below to listen. (ram file)
http://www.publicradio.org/tools/media/player/marketplace/2005/08/26_mpp?start=00:00:03:13.0&end=00:00:05:07.0”

“great thread title, goat! lol”

“can we not have one safe haven away from the mindless masses?”

“We can hike without our ipods then!

Great idea.”

“Preservation limits must be expanded

think close, close, close

not open, open, open

(roads and other areas to motorized traffic particularly snowmobiles in backcountry).
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“Lizs:
I must admit, the title was copied from the NPR web site.

For some odd reason, my computer will not play .ram files. From what I remember hearing on the radio yesturday, This is only a leaked memo. But WTF!... This is the NPS. We all know that the Federal Government has been cutting funding for our National Parks for years. Maybe they are looking for ways to bring in more money from other sources.

I imagine:
The Goat and Lizs and Crash! Bang! car pool to Yosemite and begin a relaxing hike through the valley and along the Merced River to Merced Lake. Seemed to an quite a few teenies running around.
We meet Buddha Bear out for a day hike with Wounded Knee. Buddha is singing some screwed up love song, over and over and over.
"I don't care who you are
Where you're from
What you did
As long as you love me
Who you are
Where you're from
Don't care what you did
As long as you love me"

We couldn't get Mr Buddha to stop singing long enough to answer our questions. Wounded Knee took his ear buds out and said that they are excited about attending a Back Street Boys concert later tonight.

At the Merced Lake camp site, Crash and Goat go fishing after setting up the tents. We notice another tent nearby, but no activity there. Lizs (the water wench) has gone to "pump" some water. Next, Lizs (the stove wench) boils some of that water with one of Stove Stompers newest creations. We are enjoying our meals when the first sounds echo 10 miles up the river.
"Hello Yosemite"
Screams followed and lasted for hours.
We hear mostly bass, and can make out some words. Crash! Bang! notes that those words were coming out of Buddhas mouth earlier in the day.
"I don't care who you are
Where you're from
What you did
As long as you love me
Who you are
Where you're from
Don't care what you did
As long as you love me"

Activity in the other tent. The tent opens and out wanders Lonesurveyor with sound recording equipment. He rants about excess noise in national parks, then wanders off to monitor decibel levels.

Not all is lost. Crash and Lizs seem to have found love on the trail. I am left to hold my own, again. (then I spy a spry young Mountain Goats eyes twinkling on yonder cliff) hehe

So, you see, concerts at National Parks can bring us all together. Ok, well, not all of us together in one large group. But some of us together in a large group, and others together alone.”

“let's just pave the world over, that's really what Bush wants to do anyway. This kind of crap is what really pisses me off. Doesn't the Bush administration have a conscience! SCUMBAGS!”

“Staged events in remote places could not possibly generate profits over true costs.

Large staged events are best located near where people are and not have tens of thousands commuting 100 miles or more to attend such a gathering, I mean, gasoline is scarce and expensive. Folks should be discouraged from polluting the remaining wildlands with their presence if that presence is only for frivolous reasons (like chasing and harrassing winter stressed bison with loud, fast snowmobiles).

And one more time, $200 or more million does not need to be spent to disect the wildest part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park with another highway!
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