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Reader Participation Day: Which Presidential Nominee Would Be Better For The National Park System?

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By Kurt Repanshek - October 26th, 2016

Thankfully, there are just two weeks left to go in the 2016 general election. Which begs the question: Which nominee would be better for the National Park System and National Park Service?

While Democrat Hillary Clinton did put forth a statement outlining her intention to create a trust fund for the parks, not much has been heard from Republican Donald Trump on the parks specifically.

There have been reports that Mr. Trump would support the transfer of some federal lands in the West to states, a position the Republican Party adopted at its convention this past summer. And how would his proposal to build a wall along the U.S. - Mexico border impact border parks such as Big Bend National Park, Chamizal National Memorial, Coronado National Memorial, and Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument?

Which candidate do you think would be best for the park system and Park Service?

Comments

Submitted by Gary Wilson on October 27, 2016 - 8:16pm.

Alright, i'm putting that clown on ignore.  It's evident he's just hear to inflame, and his life is so pathetic that living on this site looking to flame up the threads is what he lives for.  I'm over it.  And i'm not going to fall for his cheap bait.

If Kurt want to better the comment section, I think it would serve a purpose to implement the facebook comment API into this site.  This way, the users can have better control over the people they wish to engage with on this forum.  A full on block can be done through the facebook API, and people like ECbuck would just be leveled into obscruity by most everyone that doesn't want to read him (which is probably most of the forum members).  in the end he would just be talking to himself.

Kurt, please consider the facebook comment plugin.


Submitted by ecbuck on October 27, 2016 - 8:32pm.

Ok Gary, so you can't provide the name of an "alt-right" racist.  You can't refute you claimed you had the "short list" when you didn't.  But it is me that is here to inflame.  Your answer?  Block the guy that makes you look like a fool.  Kind of the approach of the AGW folks - "hide the decline".  


Submitted by Harryb3570 on October 27, 2016 - 8:36pm.

If Hillary Clinton is elected I think she will keep Sally Jewell as Secretary and Sally Jewell will appoint another Director like John Jarvis thus nothing will change. More of the same.


Submitted by Rick B. on October 27, 2016 - 8:56pm.

The alt-right is not your Barry Goldwater conservatism:  http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/09/alt-right-leaders-we-ar...


Submitted by ecbuck on October 27, 2016 - 9:07pm.

Well I will confess Rick, I have never heard of this guy nor his "alt-right" group.  I had assumed your "alt-right" designation was your term for conservatives.  Trump in not a member or endorser of this "alt-right" group, nor is any  leader in the Republican party a member or endorser of this group.  I certainly don't agree with this group. 


Submitted by ecbuck on October 27, 2016 - 9:27pm.

Gary, you need to take a course in Logic.  The fact that some racist supports Trump does not mean that Trump endorses that racist's views.  

 


Submitted by Gary Wilson on October 27, 2016 - 9:30pm.

Ok, bucky, I'll just close my eyes and click my heels three times and pretend that trump isn't a racist, nor has rhetoric that is demeaning towards practically everyone that isn't like him.  One must obviously play like a blind, and deaf ingoramous in your little neck of the woods to be viewed as "logical".. .

You're a joke..  Once again, you're a poster child for the Dunning-Kruger effect.


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