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Save Our Parks
@saveourparks.us
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Defending America’s national parks from Trump’s attacks. Fighting privatization, cuts, and corruption to protect our public lands. #SaveOurParks
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 2h
With park rangers furloughed during Trump’s shutdown, vandalism and poaching are going unchecked.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum refuses to act — so we need you.

📲 Report park damage or misuse at saveourparks.us/tip-line
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 6h
The Trump administration is making good on its threats to fire federal workers—and it's impacting your public lands. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/how-the-government-shutdown-affects-public-land-employees-and-communities/
A map of the United States showing the location of public land agency offices and recreational facilities that are closed or short-staffed due to a government shutdown. The title text reads: "The government shutdown furloughed 29,000 employees, nearly half the current public land agency workforce." The map shows circles of varying sizes overlaid on counties, with size indicating the number of offices and facilities (50, 200, or 500+ assets). The colors indicate the agency: Dark Green: National Park Service Light Green: Forest Service Blue: Fish and Wildlife Service Orange: Bureau of Land Management The heaviest concentration of affected areas is in the western and southeastern United States. The source is the Center for American Progress (CAP).
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 8h
Donald Trump and Sec. Doug Burgum say they’re “keeping parks open.”

What they’re really doing is abandoning them.

Locked bathrooms. Trashed trails. Vandalism.

You can’t protect what you refuse to fund.
Democrats And Republicans Can Both Agree On 1 Very Bad Idea
Park managers will tell you: Keeping them open endangers cherished sites and can prolong the standoff in Washington.
www.huffpost.com
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 10h
National park rangers are being told to take down signs about climate change, slavery, and Indigenous history — all to “make America look great.”

👉 The truth over censorship.
Why Trump’s purge of ‘negative’ national park signs includes climate change • Maine Morning Star
This summer, national park employees and visitors were asked to do something highly unusual: report any signs that failed to make America look great. The effort, stemming from an executive order from ...
mainemorningstar.com
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Jayson O'Neill @jdogmt.bsky.social · 1d
“From ethics and #transparency disclosure that should be demanded by #Congress about impacts that affect their Western constituents, from our parks to our #publiclands to our access, to our fire mitigation, they aren’t doing it.” -
@saveourparks.us www.notus.org/utah/conserv...
How the Western Caucus Is Trying to Win Influence in Congress
The group of more than 90 lawmakers is pushing for conservative policies, which include encouraging energy production on federal land.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 1d
Donald Trump and Doug Burgum are trying to rewrite Utah’s map — turning redrock country into coal country.

Parks like Bryce and Grand Staircase-Escalante were set aside for everyone. Not for fossil fuel companies.

We see what’s happening. And we’re fighting back.
Trump Administration Pushes New Coal Leasing Just Outside Zion, Bryce Canyon, and Capitol Reef National Parks, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument- 10.7.25
October 7, 2025 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Trump Administration Pushes New Coal Leasing Just Outside Zion, Bryce Canyon, and Capitol Reef National Parks, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument- 10.7...
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 1d
Our parks belong to all of us — not to polluters, vandals, or poachers.

Trump’s shutdown and Doug Burgum’s silence are putting them at risk.

Protect what’s yours:
🟢 saveourparks.us/tip-line
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 1d
Rangers say it plainly: “We’re pulling out all the stops to hide the impacts.”

Donald Trump and Doug Burgum don’t want you to see the collapse of stewardship, science & safety in your parks. But the damage is real—and mounting.
Trump Is Setting the National Parks Up to Fail
Workers say the real crisis is happening behind the scenes.
www.theatlantic.com
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 1d
Trump and Doug Burgum want to lease 13.1 million acres of our public lands for coal mining—at discount rates—while banning new solar & wind.

They’re sacrificing our lands & future to prop up a dying industry.
Trump is handing out public land and millions of dollars to revive big coal, sending advocates reeling | CNN
While the Trump administration wages war against clean energy, it is now vowing to lease millions of acres of public lands at a discount and spend hundreds of millions of dollars to prop up the most p...
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 2d
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 2d
Visitors deserve the truth:

🌡️ National parks are heating twice as fast as the rest of the U.S.
🔥 Sequoias are burning.
🌊 Coasts are eroding.

But Donald Trump and Doug Burgum made rangers rip out the signs explaining why.
Why Trump’s purge of ‘negative’ national park signs includes climate change
National parks are melting, burning, and drying out. Rangers are being forced to take down signs explaining why.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 2d
Trump & Burgum are moving to sell out America’s public lands to the highest bidder.

➡️ Protections weakened or erased across 175M acres (incl. 88M acres of public lands).

This isn’t policy. It’s a fire sale of our natural heritage.
The Trump Administration’s Expansive Push to Sell Out Public Lands to the Highest Bidder
After bipartisan opposition forced Senate Republicans to remove language from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that would have sold off public lands, the Trump administration is still moving forward wit...
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 2d
42 retired park superintendents warned Doug Burgum: close parks to protect them.

Instead, Trump and Burgum left gates open with few staff to keep people safe.

Result: trash, vandalism, and danger for visitors.
Former national park superintendents urge Trump administration to close parks in case of shutdown
A group of former national park superintendents is calling on the Trump administration to close the parks to visitors in case of a government shutdown.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 8d
Glaciers are vanishing. Sequoias are burning. Coasts are washing away.

Trump and Doug Burgum’s response? Ripping out signs about climate change.

National parks are melting, burning, and drying out—and they’re censoring it.
Why Trump’s purge of ‘negative’ national park signs includes climate change
National parks are melting, burning, and drying out. Rangers are being forced to take down signs explaining why.
grist.org
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 8d
Nevada’s deserts aren’t just scenery.

They are Tribal homelands, clean water sources, wildlife habitat, and carbon sinks.

Donald Trump and Doug Burgum’s allies want to bulldoze them for sprawl & mining waste.
The greatest threats to Nevada’s public lands aren’t dead — they’re rushing through Congress • Nevada Current
On Saturday, folks across the country celebrated Public Lands Day. Each year, Public Lands Day is a chance to celebrate the open spaces that make Nevada extraordinary. From the cliffs of Sloan Canyon ...
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 8d
Our parks deserve better.

If you spot neglect, pollution, or vandalism, speak up.

Use the Save Our Parks Tip Line to report what you see—anonymously and safely.

Your voice protects public land.

www.saveourparks.us/tip-line
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Kylie Mohr @thatsmohrlikeit.bsky.social · 9d
See something, say something: @saveourparks.us has set up a tip line for problems at parks + public lands: www.saveourparks.us/tip-line
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 10d
Trump insists on keeping national parks open during the shutdown, which might be nice for Americans who had a trip booked, but is proving to be just another way this administration is crushing the National Parks Service. From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social:

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Opening Parks During Shutdown Part of Plan to Ruin Them
The Trump administration is selling out America’s national parks. Keeping them open during the shutdown makes them dangerous, filthy, and easier to seize.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 8d
Donald Trump and Doug Burgum’s top wildlife official once argued that elk and deer don’t belong to the public.

She tried to privatize wildlife for ranchers & oil magnates.

Now she’s helping run the Interior Department.
A Top Trump Interior Official Once Pushed To Privatize Wildlife
In the 1990s, Karen Budd-Falen challenged Wyoming’s authority to regulate hunting on behalf of ranchers.
www.publicdomain.media
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 9d
This shutdown isn’t an accident.

Donald Trump and Doug Burgum chose to defund and fire the people who protect our parks.

Now trash piles up, wildlife suffers, and local communities pay the price.
Public lands could fall into disarray as a result of the government shutdown, advocates say
The impacts from the government shutdown could have longterm impacts on the way public lands are managed, according to experts.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 9d
⚠️ Rangers warn: the crisis isn’t overflowing toilets—it’s the collapse behind the scenes.

Trump & Burgum cut a quarter of the NPS workforce, silencing science & starving maintenance.

The damage is invisible—until it’s permanent.
Trump Is Setting the National Parks Up to Fail
Workers say the real crisis is happening behind the scenes.
www.theatlantic.com
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 9d
Donald Trump and Doug Burgum are keeping parks “open” with skeleton crews. That means overflowing trash, unsafe conditions, and no staff to protect wildlife.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 10d
National parks are melting, burning, and drying out.
Rangers are being forced to take down signs explaining why.

Donald Trump and Doug Burgum don’t want you to see the truth about climate change in our parks.
Why Trump’s purge of ‘negative’ national park signs includes climate change
National parks are melting, burning, and drying out. Rangers are being forced to take down signs explaining why.
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 10d
BREAKING: The Trump admin has installed 100+ fossil fuel insiders and corporate lobbyists to roles across federal agencies.

These staffers are enacting a dirty energy agenda and destroying our public lands.

Our new report with Revolving Door Project breaks it all down ⬇️
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 10d
“Parks don’t run themselves.”

Without rangers, Yosemite, Everglades, Rocky Mountain & more face vandalism, overflowing waste, and public safety crises.

Donald Trump and Doug Burgum are walking away from their duty to protect our parks.
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