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Re: Create a Mount Rainier RR National Historic Site?
Author: PennDude
Date: 05-24-2020 - 21:11
Alf Doten Wrote:
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> Never say never when it comes to the National Park
> Service. Sites are often chosen for political
> reasons as much as the mission and goals of the
> NPS. Industrial sites often have broad impacts on
> science, industry and culture. The Pullman Company
> is a good example. The company town, such as
> Lowell NHS is another example where many
> industries from Pullman to Logging towns to Mines
> have shaped American culture and history.
> Unfortunately some of the best examples of those
> in the West, Scotia, McCloud and Westwood have
> evolved into other types of communities.
> Interpreting an open pit coal mine or a company or
> companies that clearcut forests post World War II
> or polluted the atmosphere and contributed to
> climate change is not even low on the NPS
> agenda....
What are you talking about??? Steel mills and huge open pit copper and iron ore mines have which are now NPS sites caused huge environmental damage when they were in operation.
I do not know if any open pit coal mine sites are in the NPS system, but there is an underground coal mine site in the NPS system in West Virginia:
[www.nps.gov]
Although they were underground, such mines also had major negative environmental impacts and were certainly dangerous work places.
You should have just stopped with your first sentence.
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> Never say never when it comes to the National Park
> Service. Sites are often chosen for political
> reasons as much as the mission and goals of the
> NPS. Industrial sites often have broad impacts on
> science, industry and culture. The Pullman Company
> is a good example. The company town, such as
> Lowell NHS is another example where many
> industries from Pullman to Logging towns to Mines
> have shaped American culture and history.
> Unfortunately some of the best examples of those
> in the West, Scotia, McCloud and Westwood have
> evolved into other types of communities.
> Interpreting an open pit coal mine or a company or
> companies that clearcut forests post World War II
> or polluted the atmosphere and contributed to
> climate change is not even low on the NPS
> agenda....
What are you talking about??? Steel mills and huge open pit copper and iron ore mines have which are now NPS sites caused huge environmental damage when they were in operation.
I do not know if any open pit coal mine sites are in the NPS system, but there is an underground coal mine site in the NPS system in West Virginia:
[www.nps.gov]
Although they were underground, such mines also had major negative environmental impacts and were certainly dangerous work places.
You should have just stopped with your first sentence.
