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4. Many of the locals have been fed right wing talking points about the new National Park being bad ...

Reply to WhiteTara (Reply #3)

Thu Jun 3, 2021, 10:55 AM

Jun 2021

.... for the people who live there even though this will bring in more money and jobs to the
region. In the fall of 2019 I was there rafting the Gualey and fishing the New and both my
guide and the driver (we were doing a float trip) were very against the park.

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