My only concern is who is this new executive director guy and what does he control? Regards, Bob S.
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:51 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/12/2010 5:15 PM, John Sessoms wrote: >> >> From: "P. J. Alling" >>> >>> On 3/12/2010 1:29 PM, David J Brooks wrote: >>>> >>>> > >>>> > http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20100312/NEWS/303120069/Grandfather-Mountain-closes-Bear-Hut-June-1-people-can-no-longer-feed-bears >>>> > >>>> > Bring the long tele's now folks. >>>> > >>>> > Dave >>>> > >>> >>> Well the State is now in control of GFM did you really expect them to >>> leave the place alone? >> >> The agreement to donate Grandfather Mountain to the state as a state park >> reserves to the Grandfather Mountain Foundation (essentially Hugh Morton's >> family) the right to run the existing commercial attraction. >> >> I'm not sure what the foundation may have to report to the state regarding >> their stewardship, but this isn't a state action >> >> I think many of the changes were already kind of in the works at the time >> the Morton family made the decision to donate the land to the state. > > This just strikes me as something state would do. I get the impression that > the bears are captive. If so it hardly hurts to allow the public to feed > them under controlled conditions, especially since this population has > already been acclimated to it. > > > -- > {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 > Courier New;}} > \viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20 I've just upgraded to Thunderbird 3.0 and the > interface subtly weird.\par > } > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
