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UrbanWild said:He asked for permission to do it. Then it got popular and they told him to remove them.

My favorite quote was in the NYT article:

"We feel bad that people are disappointed," Mr. Baker said. "However, part of our mission is to teach conservation and environmental ethics, and we don't want to teach those kids that there are gnomes out here in the woods."

Right. Because the world is better off without magic.

Right but you see the entirely unrealistic garbage kids watch on tv/video games, no problem teaching them that... if your kid is so daft that he thinks gnomes he sees at the park are 'real' you got WAY bigger problems than face value