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Interesting - you learn something new every day. I guess my trip was probably biased towards states with lots of parks and forests, who probably had more incen

Interesting - you learn something new every day. I guess my trip was probably biased towards states with lots of parks and forests, who probably had more incentive to protect their local environments.

s_y_n_t_a_x 6y ago
Out of curiosity which states did you visit? Texas has amazing (and clean!) state and national parks as well. Definitely worth a visit, especially Big Bend.
- leggomylibro 6y ago
  Oh, mostly the forest-y and nature-y states - Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arizona, Washington, Oregon, California...I would've liked to see more of Montana and Michigan, but it gets cold up there in the winters. Mostly I drove through Texas to avoid Oklahoma (one of my least favorite states), but the Guadalupe Mountains were very nice. I'm not sure I'd call it 'clean' though; the air seemed awfully smoggy and I saw almost as many flaring wells as I did in North Dakota. But there were lots of open spaces and the people were friendly. Washington, Arkansas, New Mexico, and Utah get my vote for the best places to do a parks/forests vacation, depending on your interests.
  - s_y_n_t_a_x 6y ago
    I don't believe your smog claim. Texas is massive and has wide open skies. You'll find smog in big cities before you find it anywhere in Texas. All of those states you listed have really lax litter laws...
  - seandhi 6y ago
    The air was “smoggy” driving through Texas? Uh huh... I’m going to go ahead and put that on the same level as your claim about Texas being lax on litter penalties. By the way, Texas has more acres of forest land than every state you mentioned as being nature-y and forest-y and having more incentive to care about the environment. The only state with more forest than Texas is Alaska. Like someone else said, Texas is too big to make generalizations.
samatman 6y ago
This is... not a great generalization to make about the second-largest state in the Union.
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s_y_n_t_a_x 6y ago

Out of curiosity which states did you visit? Texas has amazing (and clean!) state and national parks as well. Definitely worth a visit, especially Big Bend.

leggomylibro 6y ago
Oh, mostly the forest-y and nature-y states - Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arizona, Washington, Oregon, California...I would've liked to see more of Montana and Michigan, but it gets cold up there in the winters. Mostly I drove through Texas to avoid Oklahoma (one of my least favorite states), but the Guadalupe Mountains were very nice. I'm not sure I'd call it 'clean' though; the air seemed awfully smoggy and I saw almost as many flaring wells as I did in North Dakota. But there were lots of open spaces and the people were friendly. Washington, Arkansas, New Mexico, and Utah get my vote for the best places to do a parks/forests vacation, depending on your interests.
- s_y_n_t_a_x 6y ago
  I don't believe your smog claim. Texas is massive and has wide open skies. You'll find smog in big cities before you find it anywhere in Texas. All of those states you listed have really lax litter laws...
- seandhi 6y ago
  The air was “smoggy” driving through Texas? Uh huh... I’m going to go ahead and put that on the same level as your claim about Texas being lax on litter penalties. By the way, Texas has more acres of forest land than every state you mentioned as being nature-y and forest-y and having more incentive to care about the environment. The only state with more forest than Texas is Alaska. Like someone else said, Texas is too big to make generalizations.

samatman 6y ago

This is... not a great generalization to make about the second-largest state in the Union.

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