US Forest Service and National Park Service to fire thousands of workers

Which means curtailing or shutting down the parks will also affect nearby communities, motels, gas stations, restaurants that depend on the tourist traffic for income. But screw them, we need tax cuts for the super rich.

 

and who's going to rake all these parks...going to be lots of forest fires

 

And thanks to Trump and co-President Musk they may just have to burn themselves out since there probably will be insufficient firefighters come the next fire season.
Trump’s layoffs of thousands of Forest Service employees will mean more destructive wildfires, say fired workers

 

As long as the burning parks are in states maga doesn't give a shit about, all good right?

 

then follow the IG reports that have been stacking up in Congress instead of letting a drug addicted megamaniac and his boy blunders make indiscriminate cuts with no rhyme or reason other than those are the easiest ones to fire. you wouldn't run your business that way and the parks crews were already overloaded as it is. you would know that if you had been to any of the popular parks this decade.

 

campgrounds

 

OT - BIL works for a native corporation health care group in Anchorage. Position tracking purchases to monitor for fraud and abuse at satellite facilities in remote villages. Accounting, forensic accounting, logistics mentoring etc to look for abnormalities or inconsistencies that are often justifiable when the expenditure is examined in detail or could be fraud and waste. Position funded by a grant to be oversight that was frozen. BIL laid off...oversight gone...funds for operations still flowing, now without oversight...efficiency at work baby

since I am an Alaska guy I track it closely. They are having a record dry winter with less than a foot of snow around Anchorage. That will likely mean a record fire season this year. I wonder DT will send help if they agree to call it McKinley or withhold help if the keep calling it Denali? Murkowski votes against him frequently so I guess it is going to be a hard summer. No or little snow melt will impact the river levels and salmon run times. No idea what we will find this June when we get there but hope to fill the freezers somehow

 

Absolutely. Entire economies depend on those visitors

 

such underused assets need private capital to unlock their potential. we can make a deal and the US will have the best deal ever. Trump Yosemite..thing of beauty, face carved in there right up there on el capitan and a giant golden T on half dome

 

Old faithful by tesla, the spewing never stops

 

Park Rangers at Yosemite are showing their support of Trump by hanging the flag off the top of El Capitan.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/travel/upside-down-american-flag-firefall-yosemite/index.html