Originally Posted By aimless
What a shame. All those lovely facilities, built as a gift to future generations, will be strangled of funding, stop being maintained, and become either unuseable or perhaps just scrape by as substandard, dirty and dangerous. We seem to be stuck in an era of rapid regress.


Actually, my real fear is that the state government will succumb to private pressure to sell off those lands cheaply to developers. While hiking at Henry Coe State Park recently, I spoke with one of the volunteers; he said that former congressman and real estate magnate Richard Pombo's son had been there "checking the place out", and that Pombo has already bought up land east of the park and is developing it.
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