It is primarily for land located in inaccessible, remote areas. Once government buys new land with bond funds, it will have to spend additional taxpayer dollars to manage its new property. Your taxes may go up if this bond passes. Land that is owned and neglected by the government provides kindling for forest fires. We shouldn't all have to pay for that.
Bonds are an expensive and wasteful financing scheme.
If these projects were sufficiently important to fund, the State Legislature could have paid for them with surplus funds. Other supporters mentioned in the ballot arguments include National Wildlife Federation, California Organization of Police and Sheriffs, National Parks and Conservation Association, Congress of California Seniors, Sierra Club, Clean Water Action, Coalition for Clean Air, State Treasurer Philip Angelides, and Governor Gray Davis. Copyright 2000 League of Women Voters of California Education Fund. All rights reserved.