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US national parks staff in ‘survival mode’ to keep parks open amid Trump cuts
(www.theguardian.com)
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They kinda shouldnt keep them open tho. They should let things run into the ground, otherwise the people visiting wont know whats happening.
If they let things run into the ground, it’ll be used as an excuse to sell the land to private interests. It’s like, conservative anti government policy 101 to defund an institution you don’t like to then claim it’s ineffectual.
Additionally, covid showed us what happens when parks like joshua tree get closed, even temporarily. People took chainsaws to the trees to gain access to wherever they wanted to go. Having a presence in any form is a major deterrent. Also, fuck anyone who did this, obviously.
They could keep the staff there just not open it to visitors compared to Covid where no staff was there to enforce people damaging property
This. Close the park due to lack of staff, but keep everyone on to patrol and do trail maintenance.
I mean we joined an org that did local "citizens" patrols and maintained the place when they were closed, just less frequent? Found it on meetup. Like, twice a month at the local state park. I'm sure there was an org going by other times too, just I found what worked for us.
They care. They care about what they are doing and believe in it. Its a great feeling and I'm sure if you ever feel that you wont be so quick to dismiss them for not surrendering.
Especially because they care about it, they shouldnt allow it to slowly painfully die out like this. Keeping things barely running like this will not save them in the long run.
So give up and go home. How weak is that.
Unfortunately this is likely the idea. Keep them open, let the services at these parks become a “bad experience” for visitors, and change the public opinion on them from “we need these parks” to “sell them to corpos for pennies on the dollar”.