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

SJAA needs a sugar land daddy. Anyone?

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> Bernal Andreo
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> > 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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