The Washington Times story on the attempted forced shut
down of the Pisgah Inn on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina may provide
some insight into the attitudes of the National Park Service in shutting down
private concessioners on federal lands that still have open access for the
public.
NPS chief spokesman said: “NPS [is]a single entity….We do
not believe it is appropriate or feasible to have some parts of the system open
while other parts are closed to the public.”
If other words, if we suffer, you suffer. Appears to be some genuine
vindictiveness there.
Perhaps NPS is worried that if the public sees how well
the private concessioners are running campgrounds, picnic areas, hotels,
stores, bookshops and properties such as the Claude Moore Colonial Farm in
McLean, Va., which was closed even though it takes no federal money and has no
federal employees — they might begin to wonder why we don’t simply privatize
all the National Parks and National Forests. Where is the constitutional
authority for the Feds to raise trees and own campgrounds anyway? And there is
certainly nothing inherently unique or difficult about these things that make
it so the private sector cannot do them. Indeed, the private sector does them
much better. Ask your local timber company when was the last time …To ReadMore….
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