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New Fees Sign in The Pines 6-Nov-2012 At 12:33:26 PM Doug

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On 5/11/2012 nmonteith wrote:
>On 5/11/2012 patto wrote:
>>National parks in the US are actually federally run and owned. They
>are
>>in fact separate from the state they reside in. They are policed and
>run
>>by national parks service which is a federal agency.
>
>Yes - in America they are actually NATIONAL parks - unlike our weird system
>that appears to be solely managed by individual States - but called National
>Parks. I never understood that.

I still can't understand it. Just crazy, and you get all these pocket-sized park that are often quite nice but nowhere near iconic enough to be called a 'National' park. Compare this with Assiniboine, Valhalla or Kananaskis Provincial Parks in Canada.