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mysteryowl

(7,396 posts)
Tue Jan 29, 2019, 12:13 AM Jan 2019

Joshua Tree national park 'may take 300 years to recover' from shutdown

National park saw ‘irreparable’ damage including vandalism, ruined trails and trees cut down, says former superintendent.

The former superintendent of Joshua Tree national park has said it could take hundreds of years to recover from damage caused by visitors during the longest-ever government shutdown.

“What’s happened to our park in the last 34 days is irreparable for the next 200 to 300 years,” Curt Sauer said at a rally over the weekend, according to a report from the Desert Sun. Sauer retired in 2010 after running the park for seven years.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/28/joshua-tree-national-park-damage-government-shutdown




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Joshua Tree national park 'may take 300 years to recover' from shutdown (Original Post) mysteryowl Jan 2019 OP
And this is why we have public, regulated, protected lands. Garrett78 Jan 2019 #1
Yep, I agree. mysteryowl Jan 2019 #2
I'm glad I got to JT before the Rump's deplorables did ProudLib72 Jan 2019 #3
I've never been Demovictory9 Jan 2019 #10
Travesty! Glamrock Jan 2019 #4
Deplorables took Trump's shutdown as a green light to vandalize oasis Jan 2019 #5
+1 area51 Jan 2019 #7
The Orcs among us. Efilroft Sul Jan 2019 #8
Goddamit! Trump and his evil ilk! sakabatou Jan 2019 #6
They do this kind of shit because it pisses of the "libs"... cos dem Jan 2019 #9
I think they should begin, right now, Tucker08087 Jan 2019 #15
access to the park should've been prevented, as in, park is totally closed nt msongs Jan 2019 #11
They would have sawed through the barricades and broken in jmowreader Jan 2019 #14
wtf? so don't even bother? CreekDog Jan 2019 #16
Bingo. In 2013 people got upset because their national parks closed, so hamberder man Maru Kitteh Jan 2019 #17
In 2013 we didn't have this president jmowreader Jan 2019 #20
Sickening. SunSeeker Jan 2019 #12
It's a metaphor Nasruddin Jan 2019 #13
Indeed. nt Duppers Jan 2019 #19
########!!!!!!! Raine Jan 2019 #18

Garrett78

(10,721 posts)
1. And this is why we have public, regulated, protected lands.
Tue Jan 29, 2019, 12:23 AM
Jan 2019

Dems should point to that Curt Sauer quote every time some libertarian asshole speaks.

cos dem

(903 posts)
9. They do this kind of shit because it pisses of the "libs"...
Tue Jan 29, 2019, 12:58 AM
Jan 2019

.. where "libs" is defined as any decent human being.

"Look, Ma, I shit in my own bed. Aren't you proud of me?!".

Tucker08087

(621 posts)
15. I think they should begin, right now,
Tue Jan 29, 2019, 02:53 AM
Jan 2019

To recruit volunteers to stay in and protect our most precious, endangered national parks. Close them down, by all means, but don’t leave the parks unprotected. I’m sure people who loved the parks were trying. I would bet on that. But, for example, my husband has a degree in a bunch of weird stuff. One is forestry. We’re both retired. If someone could loan us an RV, we could make that trip across the nation in a few days, get trained, and plant ourselves at an entrance with a giant CLOSED DUE TO SHUTDOWN sign blocking the way. I’d bet we could call up quite an “army.” Just combine resources and fight back!

Maru Kitteh

(28,342 posts)
17. Bingo. In 2013 people got upset because their national parks closed, so hamberder man
Tue Jan 29, 2019, 03:33 AM
Jan 2019

thought nobody would notice as long as he just left them open, and we got this.

You are correct, this did NOT happen in the 2013 shutdown. Willing to bet JTNP isn't the only park MAGAts tore apart.

jmowreader

(50,563 posts)
20. In 2013 we didn't have this president
Tue Jan 29, 2019, 05:00 AM
Jan 2019

Thanks to this particular knucklehead, there seems to be a whole legion of people whose only purpose in life is to torment liberals. They knew cutting down Joshua trees would do it, so that's what they did.

You realize it is going to be SOOO sweet when the Mueller Report comes out.

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