Not-so Muddy Mountain Road
Great.
Making a formerly pretty wild area an effective city park.
This is just the kind of bullshit that ruins everything.
I hope the 4x4s coming off the muddy roads rip this newly paved road to shreds as soon as possible.
Great.
Making a formerly pretty wild area an effective city park.
This is just the kind of bullshit that ruins everything.
I hope the 4x4s coming off the muddy roads rip this newly paved road to shreds as soon as possible.
Commorating the creation of the National Park Service in 1916, whereby the NPS relieved the United States Army, which was pretty busy with other things, of the duty of patrolling the parks (the Park Service campaign hat recalls the Army's M1911 campaign hat.
The Park Service and the parks themselves are one of the great things about the United States. If you have nothing on the plate today, and have a park nearby, go check it out if you can, unless of course you live in Utah, in which case you can sit in side your hovel and imagine a future in your state in which all the lands have been sold to big money.
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It also bears the huge risk of the application of the Law of Unintended Consequences. The odds of it prevailing are regarded as long, but the President could avoid the matter by withdrawing all the lands immediately and declaring them national monuments, or the U.S. Supreme Court, if it takes it up, could declare them to be unceded Indian lands.
An explosion in the bear population accompanied by bear attacks has caused Romania to reinstate a bear hunting season.
From the Cheyenne newspaper, August 3, 1924.