Re: State Park Closures - Henry Coe is on the list

> Maybe it would be easier if they published the name of the park that
> will remain open.

Best (actually saddest) two quotes in the article:

<<
Goldstein argued, however, that the savings derived from cutting the
parks out of the budget would amount to 0.26 percent of the $24.3
billion budget gap.
>>

<<
That's not even counting the loss of day-use fees and the cost of
patrolling the closed parks to make sure arsonists, vandals, transients,
hunters and marijuana growers don't move in.
>>

Like killing a pride of lions with a water gun. Heck, not even that!

As for the SJAA acquiring land, I remember a while ago I suggested
something similar (not because parks were closing but because facilities
could be customized for astro use, etc), ispired by this site in
northern Spain (ok, this one's more suitable for photography but just
disregard that :-):
http://www.astrosurf.com/astrovega/Observatorio/base.jpg

The answer was that the SJAA's resources would be better spent in what
they do now than in acquiring real estate, and they're probably right.
Plus I'm not even sure a local club could afford much more than
*renting* land.

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