Paradise Road closed w/o prior notice Mon 11.25

As has been noted numerous times on these threads, contact your congressional rep and senators

www.house.gov/representatives/find/

www.senate.gov/reference/common/faq/How_to_contact_senators.htm

As noted numerous times before I have in writing, email, and in person.

and I suppose if you feel the NPS administration is not just incompetent, but corrupt (which seems to a theme for some)  contacting the GAO is an option www.gao.gov/about/index.html

And how did that work out with Uberuaga--referred by the Inspector General for prosecution in federal court, but promoted instead.

If you think that all the government agencies are too lazy / corrupt to do anything except CYA -- enlist the media:   www.king5.com/on-tv/contact/64675492.html

Have emailed and posted multiple times in the TNT blogs, editorial pages, and Seattle Times, mostly get ignored.

I'm afraid our dem reps are more worried about military expeditures in WA and $$ to Boeing than about the parks, now that Dicks is gone; the rep for MRNP, Dave Reichert, is a died-in-the-wool-party-line Republican who votes for Wildernesses because they cost nothing but goes along with the tea party on other stuff.

I'm afraid our dem reps are more worried about military expeditures in WA and $$ to Boeing than about the parks, now that Dicks is gone; the rep for MRNP, Dave Reichert, is a died-in-the-wool-party-line Republican who votes for Wildernesses because they cost nothing but goes along with the tea party on other stuff.

Only $114K and just 20 miles from White Pass

How do you want to spend your days on this planet?

Only $114K and just 20 miles from White Pass

How do you want to spend your days on this planet?

Thinking about a place in Mazama, WA.  Don't care much for lift-served skiing, but Filbo has illuminated to me the bc possibiities beyond the lifts at WP (we used to buy $5 1-way tickets to Pigtail then ski out to Hogback, going to try that again--not the ticket, I have a season pass).

But, unfortunatelly, as an over-achiever and a believe in goodness and citizenship as part of the American Way, I have a hard time letting go of an entire National Park just to avoid conflict with its mismanagers; I post here not to be self-indulgent but to encourage others to expend so part of the energy I have.

The NPS is seemingly unique in its lack of accountability and oversight.  I spent more than 2 decades mediating between Forest Service and public interest groups--the FS learned its lesson about ignoring the public (it took the Monongahela Controversy, the Bitteroot Controversy, and the old-growth controversy and owl wars to do that, so it might take a while for the NPS--but an aggressive public is needed).  The tools are there; MRNP seems to have ignored NEPA and could be sued.  But the NPS has always been viewed as a benign, public-service organization; people are starting to see their tunnel vision, inward focus, lack of adherence to legislated mission, and, in some cases, outright corruption.

"But, unfortunatelly, as an over-achiever and a believe in goodness and citizenship as part of the American Way, I have a hard time letting go of an entire National Park just to avoid conflict with its mismanagers; I post here not to be self-indulgent but to encourage others to expend so part of the energy I have.

The NPS is seemingly unique in its lack of accountability and oversight. I spent more than 2 decades mediating between Forest Service and public interest groups--the FS learned its lesson about ignoring the public (it took the Monongahela Controversy, the Bitteroot Controversy, and the old-growth controversy and owl wars to do that, so it might take a while for the NPS--but an aggressive public is needed). The tools are there; MRNP seems to have ignored NEPA and could be sued. But the NPS has always been viewed as a benign, public-service organization; people are starting to see their tunnel vision, inward focus, lack of adherence to legislated mission, and, in some cases, outright corruption."



Andrew that is a perfect analysis…thank you!

Keep pushing the MRNP on this. They are operating as a rouge entity and not meeting the public's needs. If the Park isn't following NEPA then someone will be paying the piper...

NEPA?