AI6YR Ben
Bozeman, Montana: 'There is no one left': Custer Gallatin National Forest workers reeling from job losses
"...just three full-time employees remain in both the Yellowstone and Bozeman ranger districts to manage 19 rental cabins, 60 bathrooms, 21 campgrounds and other infrastructure spread across 1 million acres.... “There is no one left; they dismantled every single trails and rec program on the Custer Gallatin, and there’s no one left to take care of it"
Thomas Sturm
@ai6yr Laying off all the National Park rangers and the maintenance crews is just shitting all over the crown jewels of the US.
All those extreme conservatives that like to take their giant SUV with a bunch of ATVs in a trailer up to the parks will have to deal with no toilet paper in the overflowing toilets and paths impassable because of landslides and fallen trees.
People will literally die in some of the more remote areas of the parks. If you slip and fall, good luck making it out.
bouriquet
@tsturm @ai6yr No one in the ranger station to answer the phone and get either a rescue team or a help to get you out.
Thomas Sturm
@bouriquet @ai6yr
People in the US are used to enjoy their parks freely and since these areas have always been maintained to a very high standard, most of us just drive in with a bare minimum of preparations. But those are wilderness areas, and if the guide ropes are removed, they are inherently dangerous.
People. Will. Die.
Muro deGrizeco :toad:
This makes like the third time the fucking republicans have ruined a Yosemite trip for my family. For real.
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