In 1985, towns and townships along the Upper Delaware River agreed to partner with the NPS to protect the Delaware River. So what could go wrong with letting Washington, D.C. tell us how to manage affairs in our own back yards? 

How about these two examples:

1. Hundreds of potential jobs blocked or delayed due to bureaucracy caused by the River Management Plan.

It is the fault of the NPS or the local township trying to navigate a maelstrom of regulations imposed by faceless overseers in Washington.

2. A PA quarry that has existed since before the Civil War being crushed by expensive, unnecessary work rules that do nothing to protect anyone or anything. (The Holbert Quarry).

The superintendent of the Upper Delaware River comes to our township meeting, pretending to want to work with us. Instead of solving problems, she throws up bureaucratic roadblocks.

The NPS needs to send us a leader, a problem solver, not a woke bureaucrat hiding behind a thin veil of overreaching regulations. 

I urge the superintendent to step up and use her power to resolve the two situations mentioned. Be a servant of the people, not the bureaucracy. 

Americans are ready to work; help them.

Wayne Holbert
Pike County, PA