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Park Partners or Park Takeover Artists?

Written by Scott Silver

Wednesday, 28 November 2007

National Park Hospitality Association is the lobby group. It exists to promote the commercialization, privatization and motorization of America's National Parks while maximizing profits for both the concessionaires who run the parks and for related tourism interests that draw upon park visitors.

NPHA has long been on my radar screen, though it's been a while since I visited the National Park Hospitality Association website. I did so this morning and was surprised that their old URL www.nphassn.org rolls over to a different internet address. Turns out they've updated not only their website, they're now using a new name, that being -- "Park Partners" http://parkpartners.org/

What has not changed is the fact that Park Partners, aka NPHA, is still operated out of the office suite of the American Recreation Coalition located on New York Avenue just a few short blocks from the Whitehouse. Visit the Park Partners website and you'll see a New York Avenue address and phone number on the bottom of each page. What you see are ARC's mailing address and ARC's phone number. Click on Park Partners' News Releases and you'll discover that they are written on ARC stationary.

Park Partners, aka the NPHA / ARC, represents the enemies of public lands and parks . Park Partners is one of five or six wise-use and/or anti-park organizations operating out of the ARC's New York Avenue office.

I hope I am not alone in thinking it Orwellian that this particular lobby group should adopt the name "Park Partners." I hope others will agree that the National Park Service has gone completely overboard with respect to the issue of "partnerships." Presumably Park Service leaders believe that the corporations represented by 'Park Partners' are indeed Partners of the National Park Service. I question that belief and think to the future and ask --- What will "Park Partners" call themselves when they next update their website and give themselves another new name?

Scott

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