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Old 03-11-2007, 03:46 PM
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Thanks for a great post Bobby. I am currently in Arizona for a few months and trying to engage in my passion for birding. Although Arizona gets top marks for mandating virtually all buildings which serve the public be accessible, the federal and state parks are another matter. Very few trails are accessible even when they could easily be. Often a step is all that that blocks the trail when it would have been equally easy to grade a slope for a few feet. The public lands make a big deal out of accessible washrooms but forget that people don't drive thousands of miles (4000 in my case) just to go to the bathroom. They want to use to the park. The issue is compounded by huge cutbacks in funding for maintenance and staffing of federal lands over the past few years. Some boardwalks are so rotted as to be unsafe to use so they just close them. I guess the money for the big tax cuts had to come from somewhere.
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