Who owns the “wilderness”?
n 1903, US President Theodore Roosevelt took a camping trip in California’s Yosemite Valley with conservationist John Muir. Roosevelt famously loved the outdoors, but Muir …
TagAmerica’s National Parks
Zinke’s Plan to Fund the Park Service Is Pure Fantasy
What Secretary of the Interior is selling no one’s buying. Ryan Zinke’s idea to support public lands with oil and mining leases isn’t just wrongheaded—the …
Trump’s Budget Will Destroy National Parks
Recently, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke employed a bait-and-switch defense of President Trump’s bait-and-switch budget proposal for the Department of the Interior. The bait? An $18 …
National Park Service Explains Crippling Impact of Trump Budget
President Trump’s proposed Interior Department budget for Fiscal Year 2018 has evoked many reactions, cheers from the oil and gas industry and jeers from almost everyone else. …