More on the RAT. By Greg Lewis. Tucson Citizen.
Who are the interests behind the pay-to-use-your-public-land philosophy?
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Guest opinion (Tucson Citizen): Fee-for-all on public lands
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Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan’s Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of “Hiking Idaho.” He also wrote “Beyond the Tetons” and “Backpacking Wyoming’s Teton and Washakie Wilderness.” He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
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From the interview with the ARC president:
“two years ago, we authored legislation in Congress that would have allowed a corporation to become some kind of an exclusive supporter of the national parks or a specific national park. We were fine-tuning it when our progress was interrupted by a series of Doonesbury cartoons. Cartoonist Gary Trudeau was prompted by an environmental organization to target this concept with the humorous notion that a national park might actually be sold to a company and renamed something like “Kodak’s Grand Canyon.””
Way to go Gary!