Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve sprawls north from Everglades National Park over 729,000 acres of swamp, an ancient forest that protects the endangered Florida panther and the pristine waters of the Everglades — the source of drinking water for millions of south Floridians. About 2.2 million people visited last year, roughly three times the number at Everglades National Park, according to National Park Service data.
The Trump administration may walk away from Big Cypress and some other national monuments, historical parks, battlefields and protected areas that aren’t among the 63 with “national park” in their name.
The White House is proposing to cut about $1.2 billion from the NPS’s budget, including $900 million from park operations, mainly by shedding sites that it considers too obscure or too local to merit federal management, transferring these to states and tribal governments. But some states with large numbers of such sites — there are roughly 370 in total — warn that they can’t afford to manage and staff them, either, and that some could end up closing.
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No, seriously, this is literally a caricature of evil, this doesn’t happen in reality!
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Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve sprawls north from Everglades National Park over 729,000 acres of swamp, an ancient forest that protects the endangered Florida panther and the pristine waters of the Everglades — the source of drinking water for millions of south Floridians. About 2.2 million people visited last year, roughly three times the number at Everglades National Park, according to National Park Service data.
The Trump administration may walk away from Big Cypress and some other national monuments, historical parks, battlefields and protected areas that aren’t among the 63 with “national park” in their name.
The White House is proposing to cut about $1.2 billion from the NPS’s budget, including $900 million from park operations, mainly by shedding sites that it considers too obscure or too local to merit federal management, transferring these to states and tribal governments. But some states with large numbers of such sites — there are roughly 370 in total — warn that they can’t afford to manage and staff them, either, and that some could end up closing.
!ping trump-crimes&eco&outdoors
No, seriously, this is literally a caricature of evil, this doesn’t happen in reality!
This is so fucking stupid and infuriating.