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Those of you who appreciate this possibility please communicate with the listed contact. This would be awesome!

http://www.iloveparks.com/

John

No doubt the loss of habitat is alarming but; and i do mean but. I hope this is not going to be another land grab by the feds. Dont get me wrong i do see the need for protection but at the alarming rate of property right loss i feel that is the foremost important item, i rather protect people first then animal second. Who cares if there is a park if the people cannot afford or have the right to use it. We have an oppressed economy and a total loss of rights that once was afforded to the american people. Where is the government going to get the funds, some crazy road tax, lottery tax or some other tax scheme??????

I need a little more info before i jump on board with this one

It outlines the funding and acquisition guidelines. They would start out using Land and Water Conservation funds received primarily from offshore energy companies to purchase the nearly 50k acre Eagle Mountain Ranch from a willing seller.
There is a $900 million annual budget that the states are in major competition for project funding. This represents a unique opportunity for the Trans-Pecos, and would open up previously inaccessible land for public use.
Again, I urge those of you who would appreciate this opportunity to reach the listed contact. I plan on speaking with him as soon as possible.

John

Yes sir i did click on the link and read it, i read everything including the projected cost of maintenance of the new park. There is some discrepancies in the report one of which talks about there is support for it but yet the land owners it appears as written are not. so it appears this is another federal gov land grab. Once again we have a broke a** country that cant balance the budget that wants to spend money on something that is not supported by land owners.

Do you realize the corruption and waste at this level, the NPS has raided people's homes, shot and killed people all in the name of expanding parks. If this is such a great idea once again why does the private sector not fund it, its no different than toll roads, that privat investors wont fund why?????????

This property as i have researched it is available for you to use, several ranches in the area offer hunting leases that YOU and OTHERS COULD PAY TO USE, but once again this is an idea that some want but dont want to spend their own money on. They want tax payers in some fashion to fund THEIR PROJECT.

Let me ask you, if you cant pay your mortgage, your car payment, phone, insurance, etc, your credit score has gone down the crapper due to this fact, are you going to go buy a piece of property?????? The answer is no, but yet you want a broke a** government to do it, this is a real problem in this country, as our credit rating has dropped and other countries dont want to lend money to us and people are out of work at alarming numbers the best use for tax dollars is to buy YOU and OTHERS a PARK?????

Now with all that said i cant say im against this idea but what i can say is im against this idea today and as its structured, if we get private funds from investors then great, or if we get this country and its finances back on its feet then i would probably agree. BUT TODAY NO WAY!!!!!

Lets try to gain support, have private investors belly up to the bar, own but the NPS manages it, then the people who choose to use it can pay fee for the use.