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Crumbling state parks threaten tourism

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

From the Detroit News:

Michigan’s still-proud park system is sliding into disrepair, a casualty of state budget cuts, eroding attendance and vanishing funding sources.

Unless reversed, the decline threatens to turn away visitors and close some of the parks. That would endanger not only the state’s quality of life and economic development, but also tourism, one of the state’s leading industries.

Some say that without new funding or higher fees, the problem won’t be fixed soon.

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