National Parks are Sacred

            The national parks are at risk currently too. How can a country without national parks and state parks survive?  It can't. Talking about climate change, and how we make changes means making the current administration look silly. It's not hard to do, so we can talk about trees and the U.S. Forest Service, and John Muir and a lot of people with no names who travel from Maine to California down the East Coast to Florida to the Everglades, then back west to Kansas, Colorado and Rocky Mountain National Park and Mesa Verde.  Utah, in its natural beauty with Canyon Lands and Zion National Park then to Nevada and on to California.  

If you don't know the history of the national parks and how valuable they area, you might be all right with the threat of drilling for oil, natural gas, and gas in America's prime lands. The good thing about the west, is that it doesn't have a lot of oil, natural gas and gas.  Therefore the parks don't either. 

There is water, and there are trees, and great places to see amazing landscapes and meet interesting people. What is the worth of water?  It depends on who you talk with. Some believe water is more valuable than oil.  The problem is the right wing of Congress which can only see the financial end of things. With no water, you can't make money, printing money requires water, spending money perhaps a little less so.  

Suggesting that water be valued more than oil and gas is perhaps radical, but it's also common sense.  Maybe we should find ways to recycle (which there are methods to do this and can help develop new ways, and methods to reduce waste by building smaller homes and offices along with requiring taxes and other penalties to stop wasteful use of water, and increasing fresh water availability along the both the Rio Grande and the Snake, Columbia and Colorado.