To: The New Hampshire State House, The New Hampshire State Senate, and Governor Chris Sununu
New White Mountain National Park
Upgrade and preserve New Hampshire's White Mountain National Forest as a new White Mountain National PARK.
Why is this important?
A new White Mountain National Park would:
1) Protect our celebrated White Mountains from the degradation of Northern Pass.
2) Strengthen, diversify, stabilize, and boost the local economies. Reports confirm that economies around national parks are stronger than those that rely on boom and bust resource extraction.
3) Provides the flexibility to accommodate the current usages (e.g. all the current recreational activities) of the White Mountain National Forest through appropriate zoning. In other words, nothing is lost, and everything is gained.
4) Preserve vast standing forests which would absorb and store large amounts of carbon to help fight what is becoming undeniable climate change.
5) Provide habitat for wildlife that require large undisturbed expanses of forest and waters, which are increasingly rare in New England.
6) Recognize, at long last, the historic role that the Weeks Act and White Mountain National Forest has played in laying the groundwork for our National Park System. This groundwork has inspired the creation of national parks in over 100 nations beyond our shores.
See more here: http://www.concordium.us/stewardship/
1) Protect our celebrated White Mountains from the degradation of Northern Pass.
2) Strengthen, diversify, stabilize, and boost the local economies. Reports confirm that economies around national parks are stronger than those that rely on boom and bust resource extraction.
3) Provides the flexibility to accommodate the current usages (e.g. all the current recreational activities) of the White Mountain National Forest through appropriate zoning. In other words, nothing is lost, and everything is gained.
4) Preserve vast standing forests which would absorb and store large amounts of carbon to help fight what is becoming undeniable climate change.
5) Provide habitat for wildlife that require large undisturbed expanses of forest and waters, which are increasingly rare in New England.
6) Recognize, at long last, the historic role that the Weeks Act and White Mountain National Forest has played in laying the groundwork for our National Park System. This groundwork has inspired the creation of national parks in over 100 nations beyond our shores.
See more here: http://www.concordium.us/stewardship/