I vacation the National Parks, BushCo wants to weaken them

I go on vacation to, among other places, Grand Teton, Yellowstone and Glacier national parks, and I see BushCo shenanigans have been sneaking around for some of those very parks.

According to the New York Times:

A high-ranking appointee at the Interior Department proposed fundamentally changing the way national parks are managed, putting more emphasis on recreational use and loosening protections against overuse, noise and damage to the air, water, wildlife or scenery. But a group of senior National Park Service employees rejected the proposal at a meeting this month.
The 194 pages of revisions to the park service's basic policy document suggested by Paul Hoffman, a deputy assistant secretary of the department, could have opened up new opportunities for off-road use of snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles throughout the park system, including Yellowstone National Park, whose roads the Interior Department has kept open to snowmobiles.

It’s things like this which have me maintain my membership in the Sierra Club, the National Resources Defense Council and Earthjustice, formerly the Sierra Club’s legal arm. (See links on the right-hand rail.)

As if that weren’t bad enough, the antiscientific monstrosity called intelligent design reared its ugly head in Hoffman’s paper.

And in its discussion of park service system resources and educational programs, it would have eliminated virtually every reference to the theory of evolution.

In addition, Hoffman urged rejecting ideas of understanding parks in their larger environments, such as the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and curtailing parks’ power to control events outside their boundaries.

For instance, it would have been more difficult for park officials to call for the Environmental Protection Agency's aid in reducing haze and air pollution in parks.

Can anyone say, “Let’s make the Great Smoky Mountains a little smokier?”