I admit, I give the current administration a lot of 'beef'... beef about the war, about the economy, our deficit, about creating laws that allow corporate polluters to police themselves, rolling back veteran's health care by billions, diverting money from alternative energy and ignoring the kyoto protocol...

But - I like to think that I give them credit where credit is due. And today I read something that I've been trying to tell people for years now... Bush finally has taken the initiative to stand up firmly and say: our national parks just aren't working.



The administration has come forward with a "progressive" new game-plan for the policies policing our national parks... this is what the LA times had to comment:

"A series of proposed revisions of National Park policy has created a furor among present and former park officials who believe the changes would weaken protections of natural resources and wildlife while allowing an increase in commercial activity, snowmobiles and off-road vehicles.

The potential changes would allow cellphone towers and low-flying tour planes and would liberalize rules that prohibited mining"

I think few would argue that this much-needed move is a giant leap in the right direction.