[at-l] Attendance plummets at Baxter

[Texas Twelve-Step]

Snodrog wrote:

>>"A study  funded by The Nature Conservancy and published this
>>month in the Journal of  Environmental Management links the decline
>>to television, movies and the Internet."

>People aren't showing up for their already paid for non-refundable reserved 
>campsites and cabins at Baxter. Some people up there think $3 gas is a 
>major factor.

What kept me out of Baxter when I lived in Maine, and keeps me from
spending much time in national parks in general:

1) "Nobody goes there anymore; it's too popular."

2) Increasing restrictions on when and where one may go, and what
activities one may do once there.

TXIIS

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