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NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

It’s such a shames. The US had such an exemplary park system, and now I anticipate the days where they bulldoze Yellowstone for a community of golf course condos that advertise their hot spring spa.

I hope the employees steal the data on the way out and give them to a university or some entity who can save them.

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quips@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
This isn’t the park service, but rather the forest service, and afaik the title is wrong: its not being shut down just restructured. National forest lands will stay national forest lands, parks will stay parks, and nobody is losing their jobs.

But I might be misinformed, happy to be corrected.

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- ooterness@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called “state directors,” embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way.
  
  www.hatchmag.com/articles/…/7716263
  
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- NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Ah, thank you for the clarification. I am not from the US, so I didn’t realize those were different departments. Hopefully the restructuring has minimal impacts
  
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