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FEDERATION OF WESTERN OUTDOOR CLUBS







No. 6

ADMINISTRATION OF THE NATIONAL PARKS
            




The present administration's policies regarding our national parks and refuges pose internal and external threats of environmental damage to their natural and scenic resources:


1.   elimination of Clean Air and clean water protection


2.   permitting snowmobiles, off-road vehicles and air transportation in national parks


3.   permitting strip mining within view of national parks


4.   permitting geothermal activity, oil and gas leasing and other mining operations on the borders or within national parks and refuges


5.   failure to halt or diminish motorized craft (in Grand Canyon)


6.   failure to maintain safe park facilities essential to visitor use - roads, bridges, buildings, sewers, etc.


7.   encouraging the turn-over of national park services to concessioners


The Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs admonishes the Secretary of Interior to carry out the mandate of the National Parks enabling legislation that the parks "must be maintained in absolutely unimpaired form for the use of future generations as well as those of our own time; that they are set apart for the use, observation, health and pleasure for the people; and that the national interests must dictate all decisions affecting public and private enterprise in the parks."


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