"You didn't hate me when I swam in my full uniform, hat and all, to save your child being dragged in a kayak by a rip current."
The report has raised concerns about national park access and maintenance heading into the summer travel season.
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‘Hurt the park, you hurt us’: Cuts at National Parks protested at Indiana Dunes
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Protesters flood national parks to express outrage over job cuts
National park activists turn to live webcams as staffing cut protests ramp up
As protesters at national parks around the country hold demonstrations against the Trump administration’s extensive federal staffing cuts, some activists have found a way to get their messages to a broader audience: by placing signs in front of parks’ live webcams.
The parks are our gems," one protester said. “Our public lands drive the economy here in Moab, and it is insane that they are literally killing the goose that’s laying our golden eggs, so we’re here to be a voice of support.
Well, over the weekend, people outside the federal government realized that seemingly anyone can send an email that will presumably reach Musk at this Office of Personnel Management address. On Facebook, Alt National Park Service, a "resistance" page dedicated to protecting the parks, posted this:
The cuts to the National Park Service were part of a huge reduction of the federal workforce spearheaded by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE, an advisory board that has ...
At the direction of the president, Elon Musk and his team are firing federal workers at a breakneck pace. This week, some 6,000 employees are expecting termination notices at the IRS along with more than 5,
President Trump and Elon Musk's slash-and-burn project is a supposed effort to save taxpayers money, but some of the cuts will lead to far higher losses in economic growth and direct government revenue.
If you visit any one of those priceless parks in the coming months and discover understaffed facilities, garbage piling up, programs cancelled and hours curtailed, you can thank Elon Musk, President Donald Trump’s hatchet man, who is hacking away at federal agencies with a chainsaw instead of a scalpel.
President Donald Trump and the department of government efficiency continue their efforts to shrink the federal workforce.
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