So, National Parks are the greatest thing since sliced bread. And everyone loves them. Right? Well, not so fast. In the past couple years, a small group of Republicans have introduced bills that would seriously curtailing the creation of new National Parks and roll back protections of existing ones. These have been dubbed the “No More National Parks” bills. None of these bills have become law. Yet.Claire Moser works for the Public Lands Project for The Center for American Progress and she is trying to steop those bills.
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