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Senate Passes Major Bill, Allocating $9.5B for National Parks
- Reedx 6y agoGood deal. The National Parks are truly priceless and one of the best investments the country has ever made.
- cowboysauce 6y agoThe national parks are one of the crown jewels of American culture. They manage to hit a sweet spot of ease of access, preservation and diversity in a way that seems to be very rare in the world.
- 0xfaded 6y agoI definitely didn't appreciate this enough until I left the US. I'm Australian, and while we have large national reserves with really cool stuff out there, it doesn't have the same level of infrastructure and access. Now I live in Europe, where there are no where near as many national parks.
- chewz 6y agoTry Poland https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_parks_of_Poland https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_parks_of_Po... Or Slovakia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_parks_of_Slovakia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_parks_of_Sl...
- nine_zeros 6y agoThank you for saving these treasures
- seattle_spring 6y agoHopefully the money is for preserving nature, and not building bigger roads and tourism facilities like hotels.
- pretzel_boss 6y agoI have a feeling this is going to get vetoed.