Dallas Morning News Backs Funding for Texas Parks

Dallas Morning News – April 03, 2009

Maybe you've noticed that more folks are taking their families camping in Texas state parks. That shouldn't be a surprise. In the economic crunch, a weekend visit to one of our scores of state parks is an affordable way to have a family adventure close to home. As nature writer Richard Louv recently put it, "For stressed-out families, spending more time in the natural world – a nature stimulus package – may be just what the doctor and the economist ordered." Maybe, but the Texas Legislature has had state parks on a starvation diet. It's a scandal that Texas has…

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