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In article , Rob Perkins
wrote:

EDR wrote:
$50 million would buy a lot of airline tickets to El Junque, Puerto
Rico, the only rain forest in the US Park Service.

What? Olympic National Forest doesn't count?

El Junque is a tropical rain forest.
What kind of rain forest is Olympic?

EDR wrote:

What kind of rain forest is Olympic?

They call that a temperate weather rain forest. There's at least one in Washington
State and another larger one in Canada.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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| EDR wrote:
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| What kind of rain forest is Olympic?
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| They call that a temperate weather rain forest. There's at least one in
Washington
| State and another larger one in Canada.
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Even the one in Washington is considerably larger than El Junque.

"EDR" wrote in message
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| In article , Rob Perkins
| wrote:
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| EDR wrote:
| $50 million would buy a lot of airline tickets to El Junque, Puerto
| Rico, the only rain forest in the US Park Service.
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| What? Olympic National Forest doesn't count?
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| El Junque is a tropical rain forest.
| What kind of rain forest is Olympic?

Even if you want to limit it to tropical rain forests there are tropical
rain forests in Volcanoes National Park in Hawaii.

"EDR" wrote in message
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| In article , Rob Perkins
| wrote:
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| EDR wrote:
| $50 million would buy a lot of airline tickets to El Junque, Puerto
| Rico, the only rain forest in the US Park Service.
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| What? Olympic National Forest doesn't count?
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| El Junque is a tropical rain forest.
| What kind of rain forest is Olympic?

There is also the National Park of American Samoa, which contains rain
forest.

IOW, don't believe all the hype you hear from the cruise lines. El Junque is
not the only rain forest in the National Park system. Nor is it the only
tropical rain forest. It may be a very nice rain forest for all that, but
claiming that El Junque is the only one is a little like Brazil claiming
that the Wright Brothers did not really fly and therefore Santos-Dumont was
first.

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 21:10:05 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

WHY has Congress approved a rain forest for Iowa? It doesn't make any
sense...

No one here knows. This lame-brained idea has been proposed as an
environmental and educational tool by a wealthy businessman from Des Moines.
He's been shopping the idea around for four or five years now, with little
success or interest from local developers.

Somehow he has managed to get Sen. Grassley involved, who apparently had the
clout to ram it into the overall spending bill. (Can you say "Major
Campaign Contribution?")

What the hell our federal government is doing building rain forests in Iowa
is simply beyond me. Even the local newspaper -- as left wing, pork-barrel
project loving as you can imagine -- has publicly ridiculed the idea.

Iowa doesn't have the yearly precipitation needed for rainforest
climates, does it?

It's going to be built IN-DOORS, under a roof that would dome over three
football fields!

I'm dumb-founded. Even though it will probably bring more guests to my
hotel, I think it's the dumbest idea I've EVER heard.


It's pork, pure and simple. Pork was never required to make sense.
The only requirement is that it brings money into the state. No need
to try to rationalize it beyond that.
Rich Russell

I have long advocated that house and senate rules require that any
amendments to a bill have to be directly related to that bill, no
non-related riders, period...
The chances of the public getting their elected representatives to make such
a rule and actually earn their keep by openly voting on every piece of pork
as a separate bill in it's own right, range between zero and minus
infinity...
I suspect that whoever will write the book, The Rise, Decline, and Fall, of
The United States of America, roughly a thousand years from now, will cite
that specific issue as being directly responsible for the final economic
collapse of our country due to every dollar of the GNP becoming someones,
"entitlement"...
denny

"Richard Russell" wrote in message It's pork,
pure and simple. Pork was never required to make sense.
The only requirement is that it brings money into the state. No need
to try to rationalize it beyond that.
Rich Russell

In article , Richard
Russell wrote:

It's pork, pure and simple. Pork was never required to make sense.
The only requirement is that it brings money into the state. No need
to try to rationalize it beyond that.

Of course it's pork! It is Iowa, after all.

Jay Honeck wrote:

What the hell our federal government is doing building rain forests in Iowa
is simply beyond me. Even the local newspaper -- as left wing, pork-barrel
project loving as you can imagine -- has publicly ridiculed the idea.

I take it that the lunch counter there will specialize in barbeque.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."

Oh, like one of these!

http://www.edenproject.com/

Paul

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:N4gQb.132988$xy6.545923@attbi_s02...
It's going to be built IN-DOORS, under a roof that would dome over three
football fields!