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Missouri River as a national park?

Submitted by Brent Hugh on Tue, 04/18/2006 - 10:46pm
According to this St. Louis Post-Dispatch story:
Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt will have some people seeing red instead of green this week with his Earth Day proposal to turn the Missouri River into a national park from Kansas City to St. Louis.

Babbitt, a Clinton administration Cabinet member and a former Arizona governor, plans to make a retailored pitch for his controversial park idea in speeches in St. Louis and Columbia on Thursday.

His proposal gained little traction when he made it a few years ago. But Babbitt said that after talking with people along the river, some of whom he met walking the Katy Trail, he now believes that grass-roots support can be built on economic grounds because the 366-mile stretch is the lower river's most majestic.
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