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Corporate sponsors at Yosemite? The case against privatizing national parks

  • Written by John Freemuth, Professor of Public Policy and Senior Fellow Cecil Andrus Center for Public Policy, Boise State University
imageCamping under the Milky Way, Canyonlands National Park, Utah.Emily Ogden, National Park Service/Flickr, CC BY

The centennial of the National Park Service is inspiring an impressive amount of soul-searching about the agency and the lands for which it is responsible. This is timely and appropriate, as the NPS faces serious challenges that affect the...

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