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Posted on 01/28/2019 1:02:55 PM PST by EveningStar
Against a backdrop of jumbled boulders and spindly trees, former Joshua Tree National Park Supt. Curt Sauer joined dozens of people at a rally in this high desert enclave on Saturday to express their anger over the economic and physical damage caused by the partial government shutdown to the park and the surrounding community.
President Trump signed a short-term spending bill on Friday that will reopen the government until Feb. 15. But the 35-day shutdown has already taken a heavy toll on the economy of this dusty refuge for nature lovers, rock climbers and artists at the main gateway to the 800,000-acre national park, as well as on the otherworldly landscape within the park’s boundaries...
Reports of trash piling up, vandalism, illegal camping and off-road driving led to restricted operations at Joshua Tree, as well as at Yosemite and Death Valley national parks. During this period, skeleton federal crews, volunteers and imported law enforcement officers began patrolling Joshua Tree...
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Yo Coitus! Take it out on your commie heroes. The masters of shutdown. Nasty Piglosi and Schmucky Schmoozer. Then get yourself a job in the private sector.
No local police? Only park police can stop trash?
Boo hoo. Parks are luxuries. Border integrity is an imperative.
Who the hell took care of this piece of worthless desert before the government came along?
Park goers are nature lovers for the most part.
Did they bring their household trash?
Libs do not mind when protesters leave a mess or when illegals leave trash at the border.
Sorry. I’m all out of RAT’S A$$E$ to give
And what is illegal camping? They did Not pay a fee to set up a tent?
“...trash piling up, vandalism, illegal camping and off-road driving...”
The shutdown didn’t do this. Stupid and criminal people did this.
Joshua tree is nothing but a land grab national park. There is no way it deserves park status.
So the liberals in California trashed their own park and that is somehow our fault?
Those people are brain dead.
Get ready for a big epistemological debate about the extent to which the shutdown damaged the parks.
The Perps were most likely ‘Rats or ‘Rat clients.
These Democrat leftist won't be happy until they prohibit humans from traveling outside their overcrowded nasty population centers. They'll eventually attempt to pigeonhole everyone into these nasty big cities.
Sell Joshua Tree. Let somebody manage it who can turn a profit.
Hey Louis, maybe it’s all the feral people you like letting cross the border. Cultures aren’t equal. Some are better than others
Exactly. If these bozos really cared about the Parks they would stop the government from stealing the money they take in and allow the parks to keep it. Make each park pay for itself. We’ll be able to get rid of wastelands like Joshua Tree and make sure Grand Canyon will have more money they need to spend on the park.
Sell off parcels of land to Hollywood rich folk and nature groups so they will take care of their own, private land!
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