Why Is Booz Allen Renting Us Back Our Own National Parks?

Re:Why Is Booz Allen Renting Us Back Our Own National Parks? by mattpallissard on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @12:43PM (#33790679)

Some of this sounds like standard subscontracting/procurement process for the feds. (I used to be a federal employee)

But the underlying tone is that more and more people are visiting national parks. Which requires more infrastructure, wich in turn has more administrative overhead.

I spend a lot of time outdoors. If you're like me and don't like fees or permits or crowds. There are millions of acres ran by the forest service that have no amenities, that you can drive/walk into and simply get lost.

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Re:Why Is Booz Allen Renting Us Back Our Own National Parks? by ratchetbob on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @01:30PM (#33791282)

Much of the money does not actually go towards maintaining the park or adding infrastructure (e.g., all the service fees on recreation.gov go to Booz Allen). So never have increase in physical infrastructure, just the digital reservation component.

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Re:Why Is Booz Allen Renting Us Back Our Own National Parks? by blacksmith_tb on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @02:10PM (#33791778)

Not just Forest Service lands (which have a nice online map[1] to find your nearest) but also Bureau of Land Management land as well, depending on where you are[2] (mainly the Western US).

1: https://www.fs.usda.gov/ivm/

2: https://webmaps.blm.gov/program_apps/BLM_Natl_Recreation_Opp...

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Re:Why Is Booz Allen Renting Us Back Our Own National Parks? by cyanydeez on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @03:49PM (#33793082)

The government artificially undermans it's programs so that contracting this stuff "makes sense".

There's nothing specialized about running national parks.

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