We must recommit to national parks, America’s cathedrals

In 1914, Stephen Mather, a wealthy director of a borax mining company in California, observed the deteriorating conditions of some of America’s national parks and wrote a letter of protest to Interior Secretary Franklin Lane. Lane responded: "Dear Steve, if you don’t like the way the parks are being run, come on down to Washington and run them yourself." Such challenges have launched many political careers in Washington, including my own. I started in the National Park Service during the nation’s bicentennial in 1976, and a similar call brought me to Washington in 2009 to lead the agency through its centennial this year.

By Jonathan B. Jarvis – director of the National Park Service.

Full Story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-must-recommit-to-national-parks-americas-cathedrals/2016/08/24/52e803ba-5b5a-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html?utm_term=.fd9db9f149d7

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