When pieces of national parks go on sale, U.S. can't pay

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Zion National Park, Utah - Hank and Mariangela Landau purchased a slice of heaven: 20 acres surrounded by Zion National Park and its red-rock hoodoos and towering sandstone walls.

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Within less than a decade, national park officials have seen the federal budget for land acquisition slashed by 75 percent, making it increasingly difficult for administrators to purchase roughly 1.8 million acres of privately owned land inside national parks. The 2008 budget offers $35 million – a slight uptick, but far less than the nearly $140 million spent in 1999.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/ainholding;_ylt=Ash.Ew1V3n.u.KGiNCZ1Su8DW7oF


Methinks this is probably another thing we can thank * for.

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1. They don't seem to mind acquiring property through forfeitures, though...

http://www.fear.org/scott.html