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Greg Dobbs's avatar

I doubt that Donald Trump or Elon Musk has ever set foot in a national park, maybe not a national monument, and have very little comprehension of what “national” even means.

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Michael Solis's avatar

The FELON and the blood suckers around him regard everything as something they can use to gain an illegal dollar. Are you surprised? Don’t forget, the Felon’s grandfather was a pimp! Anything or anyone is for sale. Remember this one thing. Everything they do is in regard to stealing money. It is the only thing that concerns them, nothing else! And that includes you, me, and the entire country. They don’t give a s-it about anything but themselves!

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My Walk's avatar

Yep also interesting that they are also reducing fire fighting funding of such also especially weird with all the fires that have & are happening. Sort of oxymoronic to be lighting matches to Smokey imo

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Deepak Puri's avatar

Trump issues license to mine Public Lands: Mapping the national parks being opened for exploitation.

https://thedemlabs.org/2025/04/04/trump-issues-license-to-mine-public-lands-national-parks/

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Stuart Soffer's avatar

Trump wants his image up there too.

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Catherine G. Tripp's avatar

Thanks for posting!

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pa changa's avatar

Ettd

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Jonathan Bennett's avatar

Thank you for this, Russ, but please consider this tiny quibble. Smokey Bear is the avatar of the National Forest Service, which is a division of the Department of Agriculture, not the Interior Department's National Parks Service. Very few people care, except thousands of National Forest Service boosters, of which I am one,

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Milicent Cranor's avatar

I understand Smokey was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He'd wandered into the Interior Department's Wildlands to do what bears do in the woods.

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