Save our parks!

Save our parks!

We were at Zion rate as the first protest broke out.

I attended the rally at Mount Rainier National Park.

Save our parks!

On March 1st, thousands of protesters gathered at national parks across the country.

So I'm here at the Grand Canyon.

I am from Grand Rapids, Michigan, and I drove down to the Indiana Dunes National Park.

Probably close to 180 to 200 people in the snow, together with families and signs.

They were there to push back against Elon Musk, his Department of Government Efficiency,

and the mass firings of federal workers, which had hit park rangers, scientists, and more.

I attended the protests because I am deeply concerned about the federal layoffs and under-employment of our public land.

We hire rangers!

My question is, how can we appropriately manage our forests without the appropriate number of forest service and fish and game employees to manage these contracts and make the important assessments about the health of our wildlife populations and ecosystems?

We just found out yesterday that the national parks had a record year last year. However, there was an internal

memo that was sent out to the park services to not publicly display these numbers, to not talk

about these numbers. Rocky Mountain! I went to Rocky Mountain because I see the attacks

happening to our federal lands and waters and wanted to uplift others standing for them.

We are really, really lucky to have the privilege to live here and see these places and that

privilege can be taken away.

It's up to us to keep it.

Save our parks. Save our parks.

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