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As Joshua Tree reopens, anger over damage to economy, environment
Los Angeles Times ^ | January 26, 2019 | Louis Sahagun

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...

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: deathvalley; joshuatree; nationalparks; shutdown; yosemite
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To: EveningStar

Sounds to me like the damage was caused by the low-IQ, r-selected dregs this society spits out too much of, not the shutdown. Personal responsibility is the first to go out the window when politics is involved.


41 posted on 01/28/2019 3:51:18 PM PST by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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To: EveningStar

Those lazy bastards KNEW they would get paid!

They could have gone in and protected THE PEOPLE’s assets!


42 posted on 01/28/2019 3:53:56 PM PST by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: LanaTurnerOverdrive

Yep, been there twice. In fact I have been to most of the national parks in the US. There is nothing special about Joshua Tree. In fact I have been to numerous state parks which would be better suited to be national parks than Joshua Tree.


43 posted on 01/28/2019 4:40:18 PM PST by Yogafist
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To: EveningStar

These are the same jackasses that do not want us on land so we can preserve it for generations, and now they bitch about it being left alone?


44 posted on 01/28/2019 5:15:50 PM PST by Bommer (Help 2ndDivisionVet - https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=category&term=married-recent-amputee)
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To: Yogafist

>Joshua tree is nothing but a land grab national park. There is no way it >deserves park status.

I’ve always felt we need to do away with the National Parks.


45 posted on 01/28/2019 10:18:59 PM PST by ConsCA
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To: BenLurkin

>Sell Joshua Tree. Let somebody manage it who can turn a profit.

Amen to that and the rest of the National Parks.


46 posted on 01/28/2019 10:19:41 PM PST by ConsCA
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To: EveningStar

Looks like them Kalifornians are destructive slobs..San Fran is spreading...


47 posted on 01/29/2019 3:17:53 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: trebb
San Fran is spreading... cheeks and dropping doo-doo;

even BEFORE the 'SHUTDOWN'!!

48 posted on 01/29/2019 7:02:00 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: EveningStar

Are there any pics of damage that has occurred since the partial shutdown, or is this fake news?


49 posted on 01/29/2019 7:08:06 AM PST by GSWarrior
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To: GSWarrior

More like hyped ‘news’.

Trash can be picked up.

Illegal camping???

what kind of ‘vandalism’?


50 posted on 01/30/2019 5:43:14 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: P.O.E.

“Reports of trash piling up, vandalism, illegal camping and off-road driving” Sounds like my neighbor’s yard.

LOL!


51 posted on 01/30/2019 6:28:50 AM PST by MplsSteve
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