Tucker County Citizens Want Blackwater Canyon to be a National Park
Results of Year 2000 Citizen Poll in the 14th Senatorial District (Sen. Jon Blair Hunter)
Blackwater Canyon is in Senator Hunter’s district.
On the statement "Encourage developing Blackwater Canyon into a National Park" citizens responded:
Agree 252
Disagree 79
Thus we have a margin of over 3 to 1 among the local people in Tucker and surrounding counties in favor of permanent protection of Blackwater Canyon according to this poll.
(Source: Sen. Hunter’s summary of his 2000 citizen poll results.) ª