National Park Week, 2003
Cherish, Citizen!
Today marks the start of National Park Week, 2003.
in 1916, the National Park Service was established to efficiently administer our growing number of parks, which today includes 388 national parks on more than 84 million acres of public lands. These lands continue to be cherished by all our citizens.
Remember, if you don't cherish the national parks, you're ipso facto not a citizen.
There may be 388 national parks, but there's still not a single one in Oklahoma. My proposal for the "John J. Kilpatrick Tree Farm National Park" (to be in the median of I-235 just north of 23rd street) never went anywhere for some odd reason.
I call upon the people of the United States to join me in recognizing the importance of our national parks and to learn more about these areas of beauty, their historical significance, and the many ways citizens can volunteer to help preserve these precious resources.
2003-04-21 11:20:00 | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Politics::Observances
