Alaska senator: Make NYC's Central Park a wilderness area

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Alaska senator: Make NYC's Central Park a wilderness area
| February 2, 2015 | Updated: February 2, 2015 3:56pm

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska Republican lawmaker has a suggestion of where President Barack should look for America's next wilderness area.

State Sen. Cathy Giessel is urging Obama and Congress to acquire New York City's Central Park and close it off to development.

It's another example of Alaska political leaders pushing back against Obama's plan to ask Congress to designate much of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness, putting it and its potentially oil-rich coastal plain off-limits to drilling.

A similar resolution went nowhere in 2012.

Federal overreach is a big theme for the Republican-controlled Alaska Legislature this year. One state senator advocates ignoring an Interior Department rejection of a road through another refuge. Another warned in a Dr. Seuss-style poem read on the Senate floor that while Alaskans may look sweet, they're likely "packin' heat."


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Alaska-senator-Make-NYC-s-Central-Park-a-6057242.php

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State Sen. Cathy Giessel [/center]

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. These rightwingers wont be happy until ALL life on the planet is gone, dead and gone

[onethatcares]

2. hey, I'm all for it and while we're at it

the Everglades too, and the Mississippi swamps, the Louisiana bayous, the great plains of Texas. all those areas that haven't been fucked over by the oil companies as yet..

I hope she can get her buds on the same boat.

[blackcrow]

3. what kind of development does she think is going on in central park?

[quadrature]

4. Manhattan should be entirely rewilded.

a lot of electricity would be saved.

everybody wins.

[LynneSin]

5. Just what kind of development is going on at NYC Central Park?

I think it has been off limits to development for over a century but you know thanks for making sure nothing changes.

[Xipe Totec]

6. It seems the whole state of Alaska is a bewilderness area. nt

[Recursion]

7. Umm... it's already a National Historic Landmark administered by the National Park Service

Though the NPS has essentially handed it over to the Central Park Conservancy because they do such a good job.

[dinger130]

8. Maybe

she would like for it to become Hooverville again.


You know....The Depression - Republican Pres. Hoover - Homeless People

[Bandit]

9. To me it is an embarrassment that Alaskans choose such ignorant people to represent them.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

[KamaAina]

10. Sarah? Is that you?