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an interesting situation where if yoi look at the bottom line figures ..* you’ll see a fairly steady increase over the last 10 years or so. W« have, in fact, gotten more money ap propriated by Congress,” Wade said. -
“However, as that money geU doled out ... and as the money be comes more and more earmarked fp special kinds of things ... the fact t that the amount of money when i " comes to parks, although increasing ... is not keeping up with the in crease in fixed costs and other re quired expenditures. Fixed cost and legally-required uses of thi money are going up at a steeper ratthan our budget is,” he said.
Rives directed the largest parto his remarks to the park’s relate* land study, which, he said, wa “started three years ago as an effor to look at the resources within th authorized boundary of Shenandoah National Park.”
“One of the goals of the relate*; land study is to insure that land tha; Shenandoah National Park accept is truly important for [the park] t own and to preserve for the future,. he said. “We do not want to accep land that is unimportant. ”
Shenandoah National Park wa ’ originally established within 521,000-acre circle, Rives explained: though the park’s boundaries ndV' encompass only 170,000 acres. Ex; pansion is limited to the encircletland, identified by Congress in the 1920s. Land can only be acquired by the park through donation.
Contrary to the fears of some o the park’s neighbors, Wade said thal he “believes that when the relatec land study ... is completed, we wil find that that authorized boundary will shrink considerably. There’s no question in the minds of most of us that there are lands out there that do not now possess the values that should be added to the park,” he said.
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