ASHEVILLE, NC – July 16, 2010 – More than 300 outdoors enthusiasts gave high-ranking federal officials a wish list Thursday that even Santa Claus might find intimidating.
The ideas ranged from employing national celebrities to talk up the wonders of getting outside, to streamlining the sometimes maddening National Park Service contracting rules.
And all of it was exactly what the officials including National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis and Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Tom Strickland wanted to hear.
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