Its not common knowledge, but I long suspected that they are the reason for so many attempts to shut down national and state parks.
Park Rangers are armed and better trained than cops. They know crazy amounts of wilderness survival. And unlike cops, be it local, state, or federal, they have an interest in protecting something rather than power tripping.
But far, far, far more advantageous is that a surprising number of them can navigate entire parks (with exceptions). The national park system has like 80-90million acres (about the total size of Finland or Germany).
The reason I don't think many really think about it is because they're pretty small in number. Like 1300 or so nation wide. But, the National Park Service has 20k employees, and nearly 400,000 volunteers. They certainly aren't going anywhere.
They are still (or are again) active and from their reports their coalition is growing. They post often with updates on what is currently happening to government employees these days.
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Its not common knowledge, but I long suspected that they are the reason for so many attempts to shut down national and state parks.
Park Rangers are armed and better trained than cops. They know crazy amounts of wilderness survival. And unlike cops, be it local, state, or federal, they have an interest in protecting something rather than power tripping.
But far, far, far more advantageous is that a surprising number of them can navigate entire parks (with exceptions). The national park system has like 80-90million acres (about the total size of Finland or Germany).
The reason I don't think many really think about it is because they're pretty small in number. Like 1300 or so nation wide. But, the National Park Service has 20k employees, and nearly 400,000 volunteers. They certainly aren't going anywhere.
your comparison to Finland - Germany confuses me.
Is it as large as both together? that would be +
Is it somewhere in between? then there would be a more apt comparison and a better wording.
is it (Finland) minus (Germany)? well thats negative. weird.
Shall he compare it to a summers day?
Thous be more fair and temperate.
Should be Finland or Germany
I didn't even know they're roughly the same size, and I'm German. What Mercator projection do to a man.
I’m super curious to hear the story behind this, it hasn’t passed through my doom scrolling queue yet.
More national parks appear to defy Trump on Twitter
For anyone who didn't notice, article is from 2017
Yo what the fuck guys... This is trash.
Posting on Twitter is not resistance
At the time, it inspired so much hope. That we'd be protected from Trump by the little guys in the government.
Refusing to bend the knee is resistance.
Ah yes, what we really need right now is hope from 8 years ago about a movement that ultimately failed to accomplish anything.
I think this was from his first term, but I'm not sure.
Here is their current website with some deets https://ourparks.org/altnps
They are still (or are again) active and from their reports their coalition is growing. They post often with updates on what is currently happening to government employees these days.
This is from 2017