Feds could seize California parks if closed by budget

[Tom98915]

Feds could seize Calif. parks if closed by budget - Times-Standard Online

I wonder what else is going to be seized??? This could be a bad thing, BUT it also could mean that come February we could CCW in those parks when the new Federal law goes into effect...IF the Feds seize them


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Feds could seize California parks if closed by budget
The Associated Press
Posted: 07/01/2009 11:38:21 AM PDT


SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- The California governor's office says federal officials are threatening to seize six state parks if they are closed to help balance the state's budget.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed closing 220 state parks.

But the National Park Service warned in a letter to Schwarzenegger that six of those parks are on former federal land that could revert to the U.S. government if they are not kept open as parks.

State officials say they're trying to work with federal authorities to forestall a possible seizure. The state could also lose federal park funds.

The parks are Angel Island and Mount Diablo near San Francisco; Point Sur in Big Sur; and beaches at Fort Ord Dunes near Monterey, Point Mugu near Malibu; and Border Fields along the Mexican border.