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The National Parks are well ran and enjoyable -2

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Best reasons to agree : + The government has to keep people from feeding bears, to prevent bears from becoming dependent on people.  Best reasons to disagree : - There is no reason to have government owned gas stations within the park.  More buildings could be built within the state park in such a way that doesn't detract from the natural features  You could require the buildings be LEED certified, to appease the environmentalist. The could be designed so as not to interfere  with wildlife.  The government should be more  capitalistic  with our state parks, in a smart way. When I say  capitalism   you think Wal-Mart. Don't. Think Apple, Whole Food, Trader Joe, or Costco. We can  combine  the best of  capitalism  and scientific preservation of a wildlife.  Charging rich people to have a premium experience can fund wildlife preservation, and fund improvements that poor people can also experience...

Visiting Washington, Oregon, and Northern California state parks can be a good vacation

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Megan and I got married over a Christmas break, my sophomore year in college. There wasn't much time, and we didn't have much money, and so we didn't "go anywhere exotic" for our honeymoon. Megan was a trooper, and said that our road trips that we took to Washington, Oregon, and the California coasts were our honey moons the next 2 summers were our honermoons. We brought our tent, stayed in State Parks, and only got rained out once.  We: went to Mt. Saint Helens. Did not pay for helicopter tour,  went swimming in the Columbia river,  rented a 2 person boat,  lake canoed  took a ferry to Victoria on British Columbia,  walked in the red-woods,  visited KC stayed in a Casino in Reno Spent a day in San Fransico saw the worlds shortest river I: walked down to crater lake  made Megan cry driving down the world's curviest road Driving through a tree Megan making hash-browns on our Camp St...