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Just close the Admin Building and the Registrars Office and go home. Leave the Library open - it's our College - we will take care of ourselves. Sounds like a college administrator to me! Sycamore

Who will pick up all the beer cans?

mossbergman: these are national treasures, set aside by teddy for the public. We don't need park rangers/cleaners/gate people. sure its nice to have maintained camps/roads but the park is about 'nature'. so open the damn gates and let people come and go at will, just like all the non popular national forests.

- - - In the National Forests I roam in, the worst offenders are the locals dumping their household stuff on the back roads. My truck ain�t big enough for all that trash. About a zillion better places in the government to save gazillions of dollars.

This is an eye-opener:

What We Do
National Park Service by the Numbers*

$48,000,000,000 incentivized in private historic preservation investment
11,700,000,000 visitors
$5,409,252,508 in preservation and outdoor recreation grants awarded
$2,750,000,000 annual budget
121,603,193 objects in museum collections
97,417,260 volunteer hours
84,000,000 acres of land
4,502,644 acres of oceans, lakes, reservoirs
2,482,104 volunteers
218,000 jobs supported in gateway communities
85,049 miles of perennial rivers and streams
68,561 archeological sites
43,162 miles of shoreline
28,000 employees
27,000 historic structures
2,461 national historic landmarks
582 national natural landmarks
400 endangered species
398 national parks
49 national heritage areas
1 mission: The National Park Service cares for special places saved by the American people so that all may experience our heritage.

*numbers are cumulative through the end of FY 2008

http://www.nps.gov/aboutus/index.htm

Lots more crazy stuff at the link above, this link below is more fun stuff:

http://www.nature.nps.gov/climatechange/