The Trump Administration will consider dozens of subsidies through the National Park Service for termination, according to reports from the New York Times, one of the many movements destabilizing the investment of the United States in public lands.
According to the newspaper, the staff of the “Department of Elon Musk” Department of Elon Musk created a leaf for the calculation of federal subsidies intended for the cuts, with total funding reductions amounting to some $ 26 million.
The proposed eliminations follow a familiar model for the Trump administration, with reasons given for program cuts, including “climate change / sustainability”, “dei” and “LGBQ”. The programs listed for potential elimination include “scientists in parks”, which places undergraduate students and higher cycles as well as scientists at the start of their career across the country in stations focused on natural resources management.
The emphasis on the “DOGE” discounts of Dei, LGBTQ + and the reductions in “DOGE” climate change matches within the federal government, and specifically to the Interior Department, which houses the National Park Service. The Interior Department and the NP have been strongly affected by the first Cycles of Dogeying layoffs, as well as the American forest service, which manages nearly 200 m acres (81 million hectares) of public land.
Since then, the administration has continued to reduce NPS work. Earlier this spring, the department closed the National Park Service Academy, which was a partnership designed to bring the Americans under-represented a history of the park and make a more diverse set of Americans at ease to work and explore the outdoors.
Earlier this week, the Washington Post reported that the administration had suspended air quality monitoring programs in national parks across the country, issuing working vouchers to follow -up. Some park staff have asked for work orders to stop being canceled.
No more cuts seem to be on the horizon. According to the National Parks Conservation Association, the total cost of the proposed discounts could lead to a reduction of 75% to the NPS services in order to reach the target of more than $ 1 billion in discounts.
Critics have said that the NPS cuts, the Interior Department and the United States Forestry Service are at risk not only the preservation of American national parks, but could also endanger land management and fire reduction.
They also have the potential to strike the rural and often conservative regions of the most difficult country. National parks in particular can be an economic engine, generating more than $ 55.6 billion in economic contribution, according to the National Park Service.
The resistance within the National Park Service at the Trump administration plans has been lively, with more than 300 display panels erected across the country to protest against the cuts and the demonstrators gathering in support of the parks across the country in recent months.
