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Hiker enjoying view from top of North Dome, Yosemite National Park, CA. Photo by Tim Donnellan (NPS), one of the winners of the 2009 NRPC-Olympus Photography Contest.

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The CNPSR today expressed its “outrage and astonishment” at a proposal by Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA), the powerful chairman of the House Resources Committee, to sell 16 national parks in order to enrich energy and real estate speculators.
An ongoing and secret Interior Department attempt to rewrite and override 90 years of laws, rules and court rulings governing the 388 sites in the U.S. National Park System would “hijack” the American’s national parks, leaving them wide open for what are now barred uses and making it extremely unlikely that the sites would survive as unspoiled treasures for future generations of Americans.