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Okay, wow! The island and the list goes on and on and off The Wilderness Act of 19 the program because we weren't aware that this distinguished senator was going to be with us today. Mm hmm, mm hmm. Yeah. To do this. And

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as he unveils it, I will read it to you. Okay. We have over 200 million visitations in our park system every year, Which represents less than 4% of the visitations to the various public and private recreation areas in the country. Last year there were over five

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billion visitations of americans and people traveling through this country to our recreation areas. As you can see if we're only accommodating 4%. And the National Park service is already at a point of saturation as I stated before. Only slight shifts in the attitudes of americans or

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in the policies of the managing of our parks or in the willingness of private operators who have recreation areas to accept more people can bring a complete morass of people into the park system and destroy this beautiful system that we have today. This magnificent peninsula has

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been called an island in time. It may not be possible to turn back the hands on the clock that tells time here. But with the official establishment today of the Point Reyes National seashore, we can be assured that for posterity this island in time will remain

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much as it is now. Bill Hillmann eyewitness news at point. Reyes