Friday, June 26, 2015

Is this the best that NPS can do? Have a Thursday June 18,2015 AP article in the San Jose Mercury News that "Aramark gets Yosemite deal". Isn't Aramark the Concessionaire-company that was kicked out of Muir Woods National Monument for it's very low pay Aramark employees , repeatedly and for months without adequate NPS supervision, caught by paying guests at the cafe USING A PLASTIC FOOD SERVICE GLOVED HAND TO PICK UP TRASH FROM THE KITCHEN FLOOR AND THEN turn around and HAND FOOD WITH THE SAME RISKY GLOVED HAND to utterly shocked , NPS park guests?

Is this the best that NPS can do, really !?

President Lincoln fighting  the Civil War set aside the first two pieces of Yosemite National Park in 1864, before Yellowstone "National Park" in the 1870s.

Yosemite is the park John Muir walked to , before it was protected, from dangerous 1800s Frisco.

Yosemite is the park Ken Burns made a great tv documentary about, with other "National Parks", not just county parks or garish roadside commercial tourist attractions.

Congress (ha!, those payola shirkers!) is suppose to accept or reject the NPS "deal".

All these rich, tax-shelter foreign countries hiding, big boasting,unethical forging thousands of signatures to make a buck, American corporations and busted Aramark is the best NPS can do?

Does the Sierra Club, Muir's legacy, and all the other US environmental organizations even care?