Save New Jersey State Parks

Governor Corzine would like to close some state parks to save New Jersey some money. The parks he wants to close are Monmouth Battlefield State Park, Stephens State Park, High Point State Park, Brendan T. Byrne State Forest, Round Valley Recreation Area, Parvin State Park, Jenny Jump State Forest, Worthington State Forest and Fort Mott State Park. In addition, Ringwood State Park, D&R Canal State Park and Washington Crossing State Park may suffer cuts in facilities or hours of operation. Closing the parks would save $3.7 million dollars but they would like to create two new state parks one in Trenton and one in Paterson those projects would cost about $20 million of tax payers dollars for the parks. These parks are neccessary for New Jersey citizens moral along with local places they can go for day trips to have fun with friends and family. When the people of New Jersey called on the Government to cut down on spending we didn't mean cutting park rangers and closing parks. Our quality of life and the moral in this state is not what it used to be. This is an important issue and its not as simple as it seems. These areas will be effected economically since businesses in these areas thrive in the spring, summer and fall and if these parks get abandoned other issues will arise like structures and grounds not being maintained and vandalism. In the summer the parks that offer swimming, camping and fishing are usually packed all summer long you can't even get a campsite unless you call months in advance and even then it could be difficult. Since you have to pay to swim, fish and camp this would cause less money coming into this state along with a blow to our tourism. I just think there are plenty of other things to cut that would have a lot less impact on the people of this great state. And maybe even come up with new ways to generate money with no impact to New Jersey citizens. Wouldn't that be grand.