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	<title>Comments on: Mono Lake&#8217;s state park is off the closure list!</title>
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		<title>By: Phil Radlick</title>
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		<description>Congratulations!  I know many worked very hard to get this result. Excellent work!  Happy Holidays to you all!

Best, Phil Radlick</description>
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		<description>Thank you Dave for all your hard work.  Merry Christmas</description>
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		<title>By: Esther Marquart</title>
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		<description>What a wonderful Christmas present to all the hard working volunteers who have helped to resolve this problem.
LONG LIVE MONO LAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</description>
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		<description>Great news.  I am thrilled and will certainly visit during the coming year.</description>
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		<title>By: Tony Taylor</title>
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		<description>Congratulations to Geoff, Lisa, and all the MLC employees, volunteers and supporters for this dramatice achievement. We can never stop saving Mono Lake!!</description>
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		<title>By: michele wickham</title>
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		<description>this is a wonderful holiday present for all of supports. To continue to have Mono Lake protected, a parkng user fee  is good. To have national &amp; international vistors to continue to be able to visit is WONDERFUL!!!!</description>
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		<title>By: Diane Sundberg</title>
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		<description>A Christmas Miracle come true!
Mono Lake and the Eastern Sierras are a &quot;staple&#039; in my life and I can&#039;t imagine not having access to this beautiful place! I am truly the happiest in my life and at my best when I am at the lake and the surrounding area.</description>
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Mono Lake and the Eastern Sierras are a &#8220;staple&#8217; in my life and I can&#8217;t imagine not having access to this beautiful place! I am truly the happiest in my life and at my best when I am at the lake and the surrounding area.</p>
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		<dc:creator>sally miller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Go team!!</description>
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		<title>By: Richard Waibel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Richard Waibel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wonderful news!  Mono Lake is not only beautiful, but important to the state of California.  The more that people know about it, the more it&#039;s success can influence a future role and teach the importance of our natural inheritence,  Thank you to the Mono Lake Committee for their efforts.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wonderful news!  Mono Lake is not only beautiful, but important to the state of California.  The more that people know about it, the more it&#8217;s success can influence a future role and teach the importance of our natural inheritence,  Thank you to the Mono Lake Committee for their efforts.</p>
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		<title>By: RichardBeebe</title>
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		<dc:creator>RichardBeebe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>(posted to my FB page...)

&quot;YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.monolake.org/today/2011/12/01/breaking-news-mono-lakes-state-park-is-off-the-closure-list/

Now, about those other parks which the closures of would negatively affect local economies for more $$$$ losses than cost the $$ saved?&quot;


In addition to the parkland itself, I&#039;m very thrilled for the local economies up and down the Eastern Sierra that this closure would have impacted...and for the state&#039;s collection of tax revenue. I remember well from my days in the 1980s teaching the Camera Walks with the State Reserve how many wonderful accents could be heard along South Tufa trails - visitors from near and far couldn&#039;t simply take a half-hour drive to take in the sights, as if the lake were a park in the middle of the LA or SF Bay Area population. As the signs along any freeway note, there&#039;s &quot;gas, food, and lodging&quot; that the travelers may require for a more enjoyable experience. To pave the way for a more involved taking in of the visual, historical, scientific, and other values to be gained. Visitors will be happy...locals will be happy! (even the state will be happy with its continued tax monies!)</description>
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<p>&#8220;YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.monolake.org/today/2011/12/01/breaking-news-mono-lakes-state-park-is-off-the-closure-list/" rel="nofollow">http://www.monolake.org/today/2011/12/01/breaking-news-mono-lakes-state-park-is-off-the-closure-list/</a></p>
<p>Now, about those other parks which the closures of would negatively affect local economies for more $$$$ losses than cost the $$ saved?&#8221;</p>
<p>In addition to the parkland itself, I&#8217;m very thrilled for the local economies up and down the Eastern Sierra that this closure would have impacted&#8230;and for the state&#8217;s collection of tax revenue. I remember well from my days in the 1980s teaching the Camera Walks with the State Reserve how many wonderful accents could be heard along South Tufa trails &#8211; visitors from near and far couldn&#8217;t simply take a half-hour drive to take in the sights, as if the lake were a park in the middle of the LA or SF Bay Area population. As the signs along any freeway note, there&#8217;s &#8220;gas, food, and lodging&#8221; that the travelers may require for a more enjoyable experience. To pave the way for a more involved taking in of the visual, historical, scientific, and other values to be gained. Visitors will be happy&#8230;locals will be happy! (even the state will be happy with its continued tax monies!)</p>
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