Imagekind Groups
Skip Navigation LinksImagekind Community > Groups > US National Parks > Discussions > Comments
Search Imagekind Forums:
in:
Sign in to post to this discussion
US National Parks Discussion:
Stimulus money and the national parks
Watch this Discussion (What's This)
January 08, 2009 at 12:39:56 PM #1
Discussions: 40
Joined: 5/26/2007
Location: Seattle, WA
A very insightful article on the wisdom of investing stimulus money in the many "shovel-ready" projects in the National Park system:

http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/a_plan_for_stimulus_money_national_parks/C530/L37/

Any pet projects you'd like to see undertaken?  I, for one, would like to see the train that once served Yosemite via El Portal resurrected.

On a related note, I've been reading a great book on the "Mission 66" program that revitalized the parks back during the mid-century leading up to the NPS's 50th anniversary in 1966.  Highly recommended for anyone interested in learning more about the history of the NPS:

Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma
Edited by jfew About 8 months ago.
Tags in "Stimulus money and the national parks"
stimulus NPS mission 66 Mission book 66 USA parks national national parks
Newsletter Sign-Up
      • Imagekind.com is one of the fastest growing art communities on the web. We are dedicated to selling and producting your work with the highest quality framed giclee prints and recognized attention-to-detail.