| Above, yours truly in a Yosemite gift shop. |
Whenever I travel somewhere, especially in our national parks, I avoid foreign-made curios in gift shops when I buy souvenirs.
This year, I noticed some items made in China at the Crazy Horse Memorial gift shop in South Dakota.
There is a bill to eliminate the sale of foreign-made products in national park gift shops and visitor centers.
According to SF Gate:
A new bill introduced this week would require national park gift shops and visitor centers to only sell products produced in the United States.
Congressman Josh Gottheimer, D-New Jersey, introduced the bill on Monday, just weeks after the Interior Department ordered that gift shops, bookstores and concession stands inside national parks be purged of items that President Donald Trump’s administration finds objectionable — namely, those linked to diversity, equity and inclusion.
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