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From: LindyBill	7/16/2009 12:47:11 PM
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Why, Ken, Why? [Iain Murray] I'm very sorry to see that Ken Burns' new film series is to be entitled The National Parks: America's Best Idea. As I detail extensively in my book, The Really Inconvenient Truths, the nationalization of so much wonderful scenery has led to appalling mismanagement and environmental degradation. When the Parks Service and Forest Service spent hours in 1988 debating whether or not a fire counted as "natural" because it started from a lighning bolt striking a telegraph pole, large areas of Yellowstone National Park burned to ashes. Another park-service biologist, Don Despain, saw the flames raging towards his research area and urged them on with the words, "Burn, baby, burn." These are the tales I can't imagine you'll see in Burns undoubtedly beautiful film, but they're as much a part of the National Park story as the scenery. The Corner on National Review Online (16 July 2009) corner.nationalreview.com

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