HEADS UP: Trump now wants to gut the National Park Service top administration.

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Proposed shake-up at National Park Service could make senior leaders hit the road

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/04/27/proposed-shake-up-at-national-park-service-could-make-senior-leaders-hit-the-road/

. . . Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and his deputies have emphasized that they see shifting Senior Executive Service (SES) officials to different locations as a way to invigorate the department’s approach to decision-making. But some career staffers and outside advocacy groups have suggested such moves can, in some cases, amount to retaliation for employees who have spoken out against the administration’s policies — especially given comments by Zinke that he has “30 percent of the crew that’s not loyal to the flag.”

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“It’s a huge concern if they’re making giant wholesale changes across many national parks without having a National Park Service director,” said Aaron Weiss, media director at the Center for Western Priorities, another advocacy group. “That’s a Senate-confirmed position for a reason.”

Such a scrambling of top career executives is unprecedented, said Phil Francis, a former Park Service employee who now chairs the Executive Council of the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks.

“That’s new to my experience, but of course I was only in the Park Service for 41 years,” Francis said. “We wonder about the motive. We don’t understand why. We haven’t seen a plan. We don’t know if it’s part of a greater strategy.”

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“I’d hope these longtime Park Service stewards are being treated fairly and the political appointees are ensuring that these are moves that they welcome and not that they’re being pushed into them,” said Kristen Brengel, a spokeswoman for the National Parks Conservation Association, a nonprofit group that advocates for the system.

Protect our National Parks. 202-224-3121 Call your MOCs. Tell them to scream about this.

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1. the plan is to get rid of current good employees and replace with incompetent toadies.

sheesh it is not that hard to figure out after a year of this sort of management

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2. Trump's administrative rein of terror.....

and retribution goes on, unabated, because of a Republican Congress too weak and spineless to stop him. Republicans in Congress should be ashamed to cash their paychecks from the American people. But they're not. They'll continue to dismantle the entire infrastructure of our country so Trump can either punish people who didn't grovel at his feet, or to reward people who did.

This Is NOT Trump's country. It belongs to the American people. I believe it's going to be up to the American people to remind Mr. Trump of that fact. Massive demonstrations are going to have to rock the very foundation of our Democracy. And it must be soon.