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‘Ill-timed blow’: Advocates decry funding cuts for park rangers The National Park Service has spent a fraction of $500 million allocated to hire more park rangers.

The Republican bill that passed the House would make deep cuts in the Inflation Reduction Act — including what remains of $500 million to the NPS to recruit and hire park rangers across the country (only a fraction of which has already been spent). From Heather Richards @eenews.bsky.social

National parks ordered to police 'negative' history under Trump directive The U.S. Interior secretary signed an order for national parks to remove any negative depictions of U.S. history.

What's next - rewriting the Junior Ranger pledge to include, "And I promise to report to the regime anything I see here that doesn't align with one person's worldview." ?

quote on a dark blue and purple background from Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), criticizing proposed cuts to science funding in the FY26 U.S. federal budget. The quote reads: “If enacted, the FY26 budget request would end America’s global scientific leadership. The cuts to science would imperil our nation’s future health, security and prosperity. This budget proposal stands in stark contrast to the President’s call for a renewed commitment to American scientific leadership. Congress has demonstrated a bipartisan commitment to investment in research and must do so again to answer the President’s call.” The quote is attributed to Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of AAAS and Executive Publisher of the Science family of journals. The AAAS logo appears at the bottom right.

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

Psst…those 1950s manufacturing jobs Trump loves so much?

They were good jobs because they were UNION jobs.

Oh...and taxes on corporations and the rich were much higher.

Trump’s agenda won’t bring back the “Golden Age.”

It’ll make the rich richer at everyone else's expense.

Update: DOGE quietly removes hundreds of staff from NPS. Press release linked in bio

On Sunday, hundreds of NPS employees at parks across the country were “consolidated” to DOI. Positions affected include: park spokespeople media specialists exhibit designers IT professionals DOI Sec. Burgum has delegated his authority to DOGE staffer and former oil executive Tyler Hassen. This puts DOGE in charge of all NPS communications.

We don’t know exactly how many employees have been removed from the agency. (Internal comms suggested 1,600— 9% of the remaining NPS workforce.) We don’t know what this means for our colleagues. But we do know that this is a tactic to hide the continued dismantling of the NPS.

Help your fellow public lands supporters get the uncensored story. Comment on official park social media posts to spread the word about @ResistanceRangers (Instagram + BlueSky) and ResistanceRangers.org. NPS employees cannot safely share these accounts ourselves.

The hits keep coming, y’all. In a new move in their continued dismantling of the National Park Service, the Trump administration, hundreds of employees were removed from their position as rangers. Employees were told Friday afternoon they were being “consolidated” to the Department of the Interior.

A lesson none of these people will learn: everyone's "waste" is someone else's "critical service." You don't care when this or that program you don't directly rely on gets cut; don't be surprised when someone who doesn't directly rely on your program doesn't care when it gets cut.

In order to get to the Trump administration's requested $900 million cut to the "Operations of the National Park System," ALL parks in red in this image would have to lose their funding.

#nationalparks #publiclands #parkchat #nationalparkservice #nps

Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer Two families who had lived in the United States for years, including a child with cancer and a pregnant mother, were deported by ICE on Friday.

This is a shocking abuse of power by ICE that has inflicted harm and jeopardized the lives of vulnerable children and a pregnant woman.

We are demanding the return of these families.

The Trump administration's "firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year."

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

Hey Doug I thought you were all about “unleashing American energy dominance” or whatever it is????

DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs The youth volunteers who were working on projects ranging from rebuilding homes destroyed in storms to distributing supplies for hurricane recovery were suddenly pulled from service. Why? DOGE cuts.

NEW: i spoke with several young AmeriCorps volunteers around the country who were abruptly pulled off projects building homes, readying forests for wildfire season, and working at food banks Tuesday afternoon. they are now on their way home thanks to DOGE cuts —

When I say you don’t have to worry about microplastics in your brain I mean that there is much stronger evidence that you should be worrying about other things that you don’t ever think about, like the draining of peatlands for agriculture, and things that you think about all the time, like fascism.

This “genius” genuinely believes that healthcare budget analysts can simply be reassigned to making toasters.

text on a gray green background with superimposed trees reads on April 9 secretary Burgum held an all hands meeting for staff of the department of the interior. Here’s some of his lies, and what the truth is below that is the tag @resistancerangers and clipart of a Ranger leading a group of kids.

Text on a gray green background with super imposed trees reads. Burgum claims: the poverty scene on tribal lands is created by dependency on the federal government. Navajo nation, our response: poverty in tribal nations is a result of cultural, genocide and lack of lamb sovereignty. The coal on the Navajo nation has already been deemed not economically viable by coal and mining companies. We encourage you to to learn about #LandBack. In the lower left corner is clipart of a man in a wheelchair, holding hands with a woman. In the lower right corner it’s clipart of two people walking on a trail towards some mountains.

Text on a green gray background with super imposed trees reads Burgum claims: DOI manages $100 trillion in assets and only pulled in $18 billion last year. We should monetize our natural areas and public lands more below. This is clipart of two eagle flying. below the Eagles more text reads our response for those who are you? The private sector can step in, the reality is clear: there’s no profit in protecting clean water, maintaining a remote trail or restoring and endangered species. These are public goods without public investment, they suffer in the lower left corner is clipart of four clams in the lower right corner is clipart of a sea turtle.

Text on a gray green background with superimpose trees reads. Bergum claims: solar energy is unreliable because the sun goes down at night. below that is clipart of a sun. Below that is more text that reads our response: the sun also comes up again in the morning. also batteries and grid storage exist. Rooftop solar power is decentralized clean energy, which lowers electricity bills, and increases energy independence. in the lower left corner there is clipart of three scouts who appear to be looking at the sun

On April 9th, Secretary Doug Burgum held an “All Hands Meeting” for all employees in the Department of the Interior. This meeting was going to highlight the work that the department has done “make the transition to the Trump administration so smooth.” ....right. He made some WILD claims.

Our NOAA probationary feds were re-fired today. Taken off administrative leave, no salary, no health care. I feel increasingly powerless.

Parks Group Responds to Executive Order Targeting American History National Park Service staff work tirelessly to provide park visitors with a truthful accounting of the people and places at the center of American history. That should not change, regardless of which ...

"National Park Service staff work tirelessly to provide park visitors with a truthful accounting of the people and places at the center of American history. That should not change, regardless of which political party is in power." -NPCA's Alan Spears www.npca.org/articles/776...

"Unintended consequences" my ass. You cannot fire tens of thousands of government employees without affecting services! You just can't!

Every once in a while, I hear people say "What about acid rain?! What about the hole in the ozone?! Environmentalists stopped caring about that, climate change will be the same." Anyway, those people are about to learn that we stopped talking about those issues because we largely solved them.

A homemade pumpkin pie sits on top of an array of colorful postcards from many different National Parks. The pie is decorated with bison and leaves cut out of pie crust

Calling all public lands loving bakers!

Show your support this Pi Day (Friday 3.14) in the form of Ranger Resistance pies 🥧 ! We’re all stress baking anyways, right??

Millionaires stop paying into Social Security today.

That’s because they've now made $176,100, and hit the contributions cap.

Billionaires made that much about an hour into the year.

Elon Musk did in just 15 minutes.

Tax the rich. Scrap the cap.

Yellow and white text on a brown background, with a desert landscape photo behind. Text reads Mission: reinstate fired public lands employees by calling the Department of the Interior. Choose your fighter!

Yellow and white text on a brown background, with a retro photo of a ranger using an old telephone-style field radio. Text reads: Fighter one -- this fighter has zero phone anxiety and lives somewhere with reliable cell service - aka probably not southeastern Utah. Special attack -- wait, some people don't have phone anxiety??? Assigned quest: CALL DOI!

Yellow and white text on a brown background, with a retro photo of workers surrounding a 2000-style computer. Text reads: Fighter two -- this warrior has a little free time and a lot of hot takes. Special attack: using keyboard shortcuts to copy/paste. Assigned quest: EMAIL DOI!

Yellow and white text on a brown background, with a photo of a retro style memo pad. Text reads: Fighter three -- This soldier writes letter unironically and has signed at least one petition to "Save the USPS." Special attack: excellent handwriting. Hopefully. Assigned quest: SNAIL MAIL DOI!

It's time to speak up for fired public lands employees! ✊

Illegally fired staff at Department of the Interior (including NPS) have NOT been reinstated, even though Forest Service staff have been

Let's see if *public lands* leadership actually listens to the *public* 👀

tinyurl.com/RehireRangers

Musk says millions of dead people get Social Security. That's a lie. Here's the truth: 30,000 people die a year waiting for an understaffed Social Security to approve disability benefits. Musk's plan to cut Social Security's staff by 50% will make this tragic reality even worse.

All of the Republicans who for years railed about "unelected bureaucrats" destroying the government are awfully quiet as an unelected bureaucrat destroys the government.

How many times do you look at the temperature on your phone?

Most of those temperatures are from weather stations NOAA/NWS helps maintain…or they are a model interpolation from a model NOAA/NWS helped develop.

The radar data, satellite data, every single watch and warning…that’s NOAA/NWS.

I don’t need NOAA, there are weather apps on my phone.

I don’t need the EPA, there’s clean water coming out of my faucet.

People take for granted how much of what we have is because of strong government agencies that have made it their mission.

America’s Best Idea is YOURS to save!

Just remember - be respectful to the rangers and the site. Leave no trace, and keep it nonviolent…but get creative!

A WPA-style poster in shades of brown, black, tan, and blue shows a park ranger in silhouette looking at Horseshoe Falls at El Capitan in Yosemite National Park – an upside-down American flag hangs from the cliff. Text reads “Stand up for National Parks & Public Lands Saturday, March 1 – Nationwide day of action - @ResistanceRangers” Text at the bottom reads “433 Park Sites, 433 Protests, 1Day – Worth Fighting For”

Yellow text on an olive background reads “Protect your parks protest – March 1st at noon, @ResistanceRangers”

Yellow text on olive background read “Protest ideas: hand out flyers to cars, put up a sign in front of webcams, hang a banner, hand a flag upside down, march in a gateway town, or rally inside the park. Picket around the park sign, share photos online - #ProtectOurParks #RehireParkRangers - @ResistanceRangers”

Yellow text on an olive background reads “Noon on Saturday March 1st Protect your parks protest – protest at your closest National Park site. Demand that parks and park rangers be protected. With your help, there will be protests at all 433 park sites. @ResistanceRangers”

Park rangers want YOU to help us protect our parks! This Saturday, 3/1, in solidarity with the 50:50:1 movement, plan a protest in support of your closest national park. Do it at 12 noon your time, or whatever best fits your secret plan 👀🤠😏

#ProtectOurParks #SaveOurParks #RehireRangers

“The revolution will be live-streamed.” -Kendrick Lamar (probably)

This is the official resistance account made up of 650+ park rangers. News and stories coming from park rangers, for park rangers and everyone.

Saving money is only impressive if you can maintain quality at the same time. If I throw you out on the street and say "You're welcome, I just saved you a monthly rent payment" that's not really helpful