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Re:Senate Passes Major Bill, Allocating $9.5B for National P... by cowboysauce on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:02PM (#23559026)
The national parks are one of the crown jewels of American culture. They manage to hit a sweet spot of ease of access, preservation and diversity in a way that seems to be very rare in the world.
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Re:Senate Passes Major Bill, Allocating $9.5B for National P... by 0xfaded on Thursday June 18, 2020 @12:16AM (#23559749)
I definitely didn't appreciate this enough until I left the US. I'm Australian, and while we have large national reserves with really cool stuff out there, it doesn't have the same level of infrastructure and access. Now I live in Europe, where there are no where near as many national parks.
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Re:Senate Passes Major Bill, Allocating $9.5B for National P... by chewz on Thursday June 18, 2020 @03:39AM (#23560732)
Try Poland

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_parks_of_Po...

Or Slovakia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_parks_of_Sl...

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Re:Senate Passes Major Bill, Allocating $9.5B for National P... by Reedx on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @08:26PM (#23558472)
Good deal. The National Parks are truly priceless and one of the best investments the country has ever made.
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Re:Senate Passes Major Bill, Allocating $9.5B for National P... by seattle_spring on Thursday June 18, 2020 @01:45AM (#23560125)
Hopefully the money is for preserving nature, and not building bigger roads and tourism facilities like hotels.
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Re:Senate Passes Major Bill, Allocating $9.5B for National P... by nine_zeros on Thursday June 18, 2020 @12:21AM (#23559774)
Thank you for saving these treasures
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Re:Senate Passes Major Bill, Allocating $9.5B for National P... by pretzel_boss on Thursday June 18, 2020 @08:20AM (#23562356)
I have a feeling this is going to get vetoed.
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