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heath
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Vote for your favorite National Park

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Coke will donate a dollar to the National Park System for every vote cast. So vote.

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Josephine
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Post by Josephine »

this makes no sense.

They'll give the national parks service up to $200,000 and the park with the most votes gets $100,000. But Daniel Boone NATIONAL park is not an option to vote for. However, you can vote for Natural Bridge STATE park. strange...
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Liz_Weber
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Josephine wrote:this makes no sense.

But Daniel Boone NATIONAL park is not an option to vote for.
I believe DBNF is a National Forest, not a National Park. Still... it would be nice if it were considered an option, wouldn't it?
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Post by captain static »

If you want to vote "local" climbing vote New River Gorge or Obed.
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Post by Josephine »

good point, Liz. :-D
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No electioneering here please! Vote from your heart please.
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Post by squeezindlemmon »

National Parks are under the US Department of the Interior.

National Forests, on the other hand, are under the US Department of Agriculture.
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I disagree Capt. The economy of the red hinges greatly (not solely of course) on tourists coming to see natural bridge. Which also brings money into other areas of the red. I.E. Cabins, climbing, paintball, guiding....etc.

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captain static
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Post by captain static »

Just a little clarification Coke gives matching money to the National Parks Foundation, a non-profit organization.
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Jay
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Post by Jay »

How in the hell does little Ocmulgee State Park in Georgia have 6,733 votes?

Yosemite has 512
Rocky Mountain has 201
Yellowstone has 1537
Great Smoky Mountains have 4232
And Blue Ridge Parkway, the National Park with the highest attendance rate in the US, has- wait for it- 238

I smell fraud...

*edit- in the time it took me to write this post, it's gone up to 6879 WTF?*
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