114 mid-week tourist flights/year at Mt. Rainier

let's see, keep the roads closed but allow more sightseeing air traffic.
Something stinks here besides the turd removal.

The following copied from the Oly paper

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More information is available at the National Parks Services' and Federal Aviation Administration's websites.

To comment

Any written response must be submitted by May 16. You can submit comments at the National Parks Services' website or by mail to Larry Tonish, FAA, P.O. Box 92007, Los Angeles, CA 90009-2007.

Public meetings

April 26: 6:30-8:30 p.m., Mountaineers Building, Goodman Auditorium, 7700 Sand Point Way N.E., Seattle.

April 27: 6:30-8:30 p.m., Mount Rainier National Park Education Center, Tahoma Woods headquarters, 55210 238th Ave. E., Ashford.

April 28: 6:30-8:30 p.m., Washington State History Museum, 1911 Pacific Ave., Tacoma.

let's see, keep the roads closed but allow more sightseeing air traffic.
Something stinks here besides the turd removal.

That's funny. Robie,  but  none of the four alternatives actually increases the number of allowed flights above the current, but unreached, limit of 114 annually.  If it hadn't been for NPCA threatening legal action, there probably wouldn't even be a no flights alternative included.  I've seen a lot of these legally mandated dog & pony shows and the NPS always ends up doing what they wanted to in the first place.

Testifying before the Senate Committee on Finance on January 30, 2003, Inspector General Devaney remarked: "Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee, I have served in the Federal Government for a little over 32 years. I have never seen an organization more unwilling to accept constructive criticism or embrace new ideas than the National Park Service. Their culture is to fight fiercely to protect the status quo and reject any idea not their own."