How Trump Has Disrupted National Parks

America's National Parks suffer at the expense of Trump's gold statues: NYT

The New York Times reports all that gold leaf and marble that President Donald Trump is laying down in Washington, D.C., has to be paid for with something, and apparently that money is coming from the rest of the nation’s parks and public spaces.“President Trump’s administration has thrown the 433 sites managed by the National Park Service into turmoil, shifting funding and workers to pet projects in Washington, slashing staff across the country…

'Catastrophic' cost of Trump's gluttonous gilding exposed in bombshell NYT report

President Donald Trump's gluttonous hunger to gild Washington, D.C has left America's national parks in dire turmoil, according to experts sounding the alarm.Trump has cut national park staff across the country and steered fee revenue toward his projects in D.C., including the botched Reflecting Pool repairs and covering statues on the National Mall in gold, the New York Times reported Saturday. Longtime park officials fear the losses will be ha…

How Trump Has Disrupted National Parks

“Ever since Theodore Roosevelt ventured into the wilderness of California’s Yosemite Valley in 1903 and emerged with a sweeping conservation policy, presidents in both parties have valued the country’s national parks,” the New York Times reports. “The public has, too. Polling shows that Americans of all stripes and political persuasions overwhelmingly love their parks.” “But […]