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National Parks Traveler Podcast Episode 325 | Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility

Longmire Cabin at Valles Caldera National Preserve. Patrick Cone photo.

News around public lands these days seems to revolve entirely around the Trump administration. In the case of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, many of the steps the administration is taking with the operational efficiencies of the National Park Service and other land management agencies certainly are keeping PEER busy.
 

4th Annual Threatened And Endangered Parks | Trump's Return Triggering Trepidation

President-elect Trump's upcoming return to the White House is generating grave concerns that the National Park Service will be facing fiscal reductions and policy revisions that could significantly alter both the way it does business as well as how it manages to conserve the park system.

National Parks Traveler Podcast Episode 303 | Change Happens

Post-Hurricane Helene aftermath at the Blue Ridge Parkway. NPS photo.

Change happens…and sometimes it doesn’t.

Change certainly is underway in Washington, where the incoming Trump administration is putting its players in position with promises of changing, or maybe upsetting, the status quo.

Against that, the National Park Service continues to face long-standing problems with not enough staff or funding, compounded by National Park System damage from hurricanes, tornadoes, sea level rise, wildfires, just about everything under the sun.

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