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Well, I'm gonna have a chat with Bill Gates and see what he thinks of my proposal and I'll get a spin doctor to help push it through (pardon the pun) here on BYC - if some bloke with a ridiculous hair do can manage what he's managed, my idea should be plain sailing!
 
CTKen said:
I'd suggest googling it Debby. Great to get a wage again, I'm sure.

Here's a link that you and Blooie might enjoy

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36362634
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Visited that site and the photography is gorgeous. Thanks for the link. Just a couple of things odd about the story, though.... first it would be hard to "limit visitors" in the Park. See, for us it's not just the world's first National Park and a wildlife refuge. It's a highway. It's how we get from our end of Wyoming over to Idaho when Ken has conferences there. In the East Gate, out the West Gate. Same with going to Jackson for York Rite Sessions - in the East Gate, out the South Gate, through Grand Teton National Park, and on to the sessions. Folks from the southwest - Rock Springs, Pinedale, Jackson - go north through Grand Teton NP into Yellowstone via the South Gate and into Montana through the North Gate. Hard to grasp, ain't it? Two National Parks being routes, not destinations.... At one time the environmentalists wanted to close the Parks to traffic, make you park outside the gates and take busses in. Senator Enzi had to remind Congress that Yellowstone is the size of Connecticut - and there are too many destinations within the Park to make that feasible. He said it would be like wanting to go to a place in Connecticut and having to park in Massachusetts and take a bus to what you wanted to see.

As for the wolves, well, I like them. I think they are magnificent animals and part of the wild. Just a couple of minor problems with filling the Park with them. First of all, the type they "reintroduced" to the Park was never there to begin with. Second, they thought the wolves would be able to read and stay within the Park Boundaries....you know, stop, read the signs at the entrances, and say, "Nope, gotta turn back, end of the line." Third, once wolves roamed free all over this nation - so why shouldn't we "reintroduce" them to Central Park in New York or the Potomac River Basin? Why pick Wyoming? Well, because they assumed we were dumb and since we had so much open space we wouldn't mind. Put it to a nationwide vote and you'd have more folks in other states voting to do it than Wyoming has voters, so we'd lose anyway. It's one of the biggest disadvantages to living in the least populated state in the country - no matter what the issue, there are more votes in one suburb of a big city than there are voters in the state, so no matter what we are invisible, and folks back East decide what's best for us instead of us deciding that.

BertS said:
a failed movement, can certainly stop things up!
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You guys are incorrigible, do you know that? <sigh>
 
Your'e welcome Blooie and thanks for the insight. I agree that national parks MUST serve a purpose to humans - they were never intended to be zoned off areas of wilderness. As for re-introducing species - its almost as tricky as introducing non-native species in terms of eco-system balance and contiguous areas where we humans live.
 

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