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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"
@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.
@murodegrizeco @ai6yr I feel you. We were at Bryce Canyon in the middle of long road trip when Trump shut down the government in 2018. The rangers left the park open, but no services, and if we would have slipped and fallen, we would have straight out died out there.
@tsturm @murodegrizeco @ai6yr I just internalized today that a couple of days on our traditional trip up the CA coast into OR/WA are going to get more complicated or longer without National Parks as a reliable destination. I’m just relieved that the western states have such extensive state park systems…