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Lost are opportunities to make it easier to experience our parks, such as improving the drive to McCarthy in Wrangell-St. Elias. In the Lower 48, visitor centers, campgrounds, trails, and park roads are in dire need of repair. We need a plan and vision to reinvigorate the health of our entire national park system for its 100th birthday.

The National Parks Conservation Association has proposed a comprehensive plan for fixing Glacier Bay, Denali, Wrangell-St. Elias and all of our national parks, in response to the new National Parks Centennial Challenge issued by Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne this summer.

It's up to all of us to make this challenge a reality, so I am taking the pledge to fix our parks at the National Parks Conservation Association Web site. Will you?

Jim Stratton

Alaska regional director, National Parks Conservation Association

Anchorage