Should We Privatize National Parks?
Let's leave it up to the states to decide whether they want to take over the parks in their state. Standard of maintenance and use can still be established at the Federal level. If a state cannot handle it like some of your examples, then I can understand Federal involvement.
There's absolutely no reason for us to have "national" parks.
We should sell it off to a the highest bidder and let them do whatever they want with it. If a bunch of silly liberals want to pool their money together to protect lands they'll almost certainly never visit then I say more power to them. There's just no sense in it being a government operation.
No, why let the people of a state decide they can build power plants on the Grand Canyon and shut off the rest of the Colorado River or mine inside Yellowstone because *they* will profit? Those national treasures belong to the entire nation, not to the locals to spoil.
There's absolutely no reason for us to have "national" parks.
The land will be more than likely bought by people interested conservation, and furthermore, it will be zoned like any other property that will bar certain kinds of activities. Why you think the land would somehow not be governed by zoning laws is beyond me.
Hell yeah! Imagine all the ad revenue from having bison wander around with sandwich boards and we could broadcast new product information right on the face of half dome.
Maybe we could get one of those water screens at Niagra Falls.
There's absolutely no reason for us to have "national" parks.
We should sell it off to a the highest bidder and let them do whatever they want with it. If a bunch of silly liberals want to pool their money together to protect lands they'll almost certainly never visit then I say more power to them. There's just no sense in it being a government operation.
No, why let the people of a state decide they can build power plants on the Grand Canyon and shut off the rest of the Colorado River or mine inside Yellowstone because *they* will profit? Those national treasures belong to the entire nation, not to the locals to spoil.
First we need to privatize the air.
Too many people are breathing without paying for it.
First we need to privatize the air.
Too many people are breathing without paying for it.
Apparently we have a ton of people interested in land conservation, but none of them can be arsed to do it themselves. It reminds me a lot of hippies.
A lot of people that are interested in land conservation also give to The Nature Conservancy. However, not too many people have the kind of money laying around to just buy up a park like Wrangell - St Elias National Park and set it aside for future generations. If you assume a median price of about $1,200 dollars an acre, the upfront costs for an individual to purchase Wrangell and set it aside for future generations would be just under 16 billion dollars. Of course then you would have to have money left over to hire at least a few ecologists, foresters, and rangers to manage it. So we could try to convince Bill Gates to do this, or all of us Americans could contribute just a tiny, tiny portion of our taxes every year that we all pay in together for the protection and management of that land for our generation and future generations. Thank God previous generations has the foresight to do so.
Everything we do in the public sector is not bad, or evil, or totalitarian. National Parks are a good thing. Almost everyone, regardless of their politics believe that National Parks are a good thing.
I really can't say what each acre would cost.
What I do now is that this is an interest that people rich and poor seem to have and there is no reason they couldn't buy the land
and have the government zone the land for the purpose of conservation.
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I'm sure we can make the changes in zoning laws necessary to make people like yourself happy and I'm sure people competing in conservation efforts will bring about a better product than a monopoly ever could.
One solution to the cost issue is that individuals interested in buying the land could collect money from those interested in their efforts and give them stock in their business in exchange for the money. This way the people interested in buying the land have the funds necessary, and those interested in their cause can benefit from their investment.