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Posted on 11/27/2025 3:30:42 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The Department of the Interior announced a series of changes Tuesday for America the Beautiful passes, which cover entry and amenity fees at over 2,000 federally managed areas, including the country’s national parks. Among the differences visitors can expect beginning in 2026 are new digital passes, original artwork featuring President Donald Trump and “America-first” prices that will see international visitors paying steeper fares.
A mockup of the new design does away with the traditional images of scenic vistas or species like bighorn sheep and instead shows Trump beside a painted rendering of George Washington — a bold choice that has caused at least one spit take.
“For a person who has done so much to remove protections from significant federally protected lands to put his face directly on the national park access pass is extremely disingenuous, if not outright hurtful to the conservation community overall,” says California-based naturalist and redwood forest guide Justin Legge. “We would not have national parks, or protected federal lands in general, if leaders with those ideals were in place while we were in the process of creating them.”
If you ask Bill Wade, executive director for the Association of National Park Rangers, the new design may not be a selling point. “Given the damage that the Trump administration has done to America’s National Parks and their employees, I would not purchase one of these passes with his image on it,” he told SFGATE. “I would pay separately at each park to help that park overcome the damage.”
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Put a picture of foreign born Obama over the “international fees” notice.
Media playbook 101, suddenly pretend to care about conservatives and know what they are thinking.
outrages “conservationists”
Not this one. :-)
What else is new?
Good. New ways to make liberals mad.
True.
My happiness is in proportion to their outrage. I’d like to find more ways to anger them.
>> If you ask Bill Wade, executive director for the Association of National Park Rangers, [bla bla bla head exploding TDS BS...]
Hmmm... looks like we need a “changing of the guard” at the National Park Service! (Maybe a better way to put it is “we need to fumigate out the vermin”.)
Secretary Burgum, call your office...
>> My happiness is in proportion to their outrage. I’d like to find more ways to anger them.
There’s a German word for it...
Just wait until they see Trump’s face on Mt. Rushmore! Dare we hope for suicides?
(The hair is already in place, actually.)
Trump is wrong to brand government things with his name or likeness; he needs a lesson in how to not unnecessarily make enemies.
Trump is wrong to brand government things with his name or likeness; he needs a lesson in how to not unnecessarily make enemies. Many here think only “Liberals” will object. No, many Conservatives, Moderates and Independents will too. It’s just plain unseemly.
My Golden Age passport does not have a picture on it.
I will postulate the draft proposal was made by a Department of Interior brown noser seeking a promotion
That’s it!
This is the money quote. The Leftist cadre in the National Parks is functionally ticked off that illegal aliens, Afghan internationals, and socialist EU denizens
have to fork-off more "tourists" for US lands.
The National Parks Lefties only want to smear another slap at Trump policies.
I love liberal outrage in the morning.
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