Miles of pristine LA beach could become America's next national park

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SFGate

On Thursday, the National Park Service announced the launch of the Los Angeles Coastal Area Special Resource Study, an early step in evaluating the area as a potential national park unit. The preliminary study area starts at Will Rogers State Beach and stretches down to Torrance Beach, skips the edge of the sinking Palos Verdes Peninsula and then includes the San Pedro coastline.

The map provided by the National Park Service also shows the study area stretching inland to include Ballona Creek and Baldwin Hills, home to both a popular hiking area and the vast Inglewood Oil Field. The study defines coastline areas as “the area from the mean high tide line of the sea to approximately 200 yards inland from the mean high tide line.”

Another criterion is suitability, which means it contains a “national or cultural resource” that isn’t already represented in the national park system or “comparably represented and protected for public enjoyment” by another entity. Similarly, the resource must require “direct NPS management that is clearly superior to other management approaches.” Essentially, NPS must conclude that the federal agency can do a better job of managing the coastline than the state and local entities currently in charge.

Seems trick to make these beaches for exclusive use of elites.

[Walleye]

1. We know if the Trump administration is doing it, it's not for the benefit of every day Americans

[3Hotdogs]

2. Everyone knows it should'a been Mer-a-Loco, West.