Metal detecting in state parks...what state parks????

[Pete in MI]

Starting Monday 20 state parks will be closing due to a budget cut...and most of them are in the area where I live. Read about it in this article from the Lansing State Journal.

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070706/NEWS01/707060357

Lansing is our State Capitol so this is straight from the higher ups in the government..

Our economy is based on tourism...shut down the parks and we lose revenue to keep us afloat. How much longer will it be before we have another Black Friday and Stock Market crash and a long time of poverty (beyond what Michigan already has)?

God help us.

 

[warthog]

n/t

 

[Mike from MI "Iron Brigade"]

did ya post this at the club site yet? Thanks for the info!

 

[Jamie(MI)]

Pete, Those all sound like fishing lakes. I wonder how they will police them?

 

[Pete in MI]

n/t

 

[Pete in MI]

if they can't go there to camp and to fish - legally. They sure aren't driving up here to spend 3 hours of driving time then fish then drive back home...that's why they come up to camp. Can't camp - why fish? And if you're not going to fish why buy a license...more lost revenue for the state.

Anyone caught in a closed campground will probably charged with trespassing, if they are fishing without a license - steep fines and probably even confiscation of the vehicle they drove up in along with anything else in the vehicle (used in commission of a crime - trespassing and illegal fishing). That may bring in some money to the state but it does nothing to help those small towns around those campgrounds and small businesses that had some income from tourists who won't want to come up. Tourists won't want to pay more in the other parks if they wanted to do primative camping to begin with.

The People will be the losers in the end...those who have businesses up here, those who won't come back up here and even the State.

Oh well we all know the Governor knows what she is doing, right?

 

[Pete in MI]

http://www.michigan.gov/dnr

 

[AllenOK]

Most of our state parks are open, BUT.....

with all the rain, and resulting flooding in the rivers and lakes, the lakes are up between 15 - 30 feet above normal pool! Most beaches are completely underwater, deeper than I can wade. Lake Texhoma's spillway has water flowing over it for the second (?) time in it's history. Lake Keystone, just west of Tulsa, where I live, is right around 30' above normal pool. If the lake gets 2' higher, the Corps. of Engineers will have no choice but to start opening the floodgates. If that happens, the town of Sand Springs will experience major flooding. The last time that happened was in '84.

 

[Pete in MI]

n/t