#US national parks

[aimeekb]

The Milky Way rising over Joshua Tree National Park, California

[catboybiologist]

Fuck, man. It's hard to say how much this saddens me. Yosemite has it's own pride. Fucking Stonewall itself is protected by the NPS. From people I've worked and volunteered with in the past, the NPS is an amazingly queer friendly organization to work for.

I think you can also guess that seeing queer people active and out in nature has been a massive inspiration for me.

My first reaction here is to consider the NPS victims, not instigators here. I need more info before jumping to conclusions, and I encourage people to individually research and form their own opinions on this. To be blunt, the NPS is in a sorry state financially. Their budget hasn't increased at a rate that keeps up with inflation, much less visitation, and as someone who's visited national parks throughout their life, it has visibly shown in their infrastructure, public facing services, and employment opportunities. Being the target of a culture war could be terrifying. This is apparently a "reminder" of existing, universal government policy on the conduct of uniformed government officials being banned from participating in events showing political sides on issues unrelated to their organization.

But it's very, very telling that cops are still allowed to attend pride events in uniform.

This is a decision from a scared government institute, I think.

If that's all apologetics, please call me out on it. I'm queer (no shit). I also love the NPS. I'm going to wait until their official statement to jump to conclusions. But fuck.

[ladysansa]

for your consideration:

Great Smokey Mountains

Grand Teton

Yellowstone

Acadia

Olympic

Mount Rainier

Yosemite

Grand Canyon

[noordinarysunset]

Acadia National Park Bar Harbor, Maine

[mapsontheweb]

A comparison of all US National Parks acreage

[ravenzer]

National Park Service valentines from instagram

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[basilthefrogphotographer]

U.S. Virgin Islands National Park.

8/63

[perrysoup]

Call me old fashioned but I think in the US (and around the world but I don't want to speak for them or can even say I am fully aware of what all they are doing) should rename all our natural monuments and locations back to their original (ie- non-colonizer) names.

It's not Yellowstone it's The Burning Mountains

It's not Mt. Rushmore it's Tunkasila Sakpe Paha

It's not the Grand Canyon, it's Öngtupqa (Hopi), and Yavapai: Wi:kaʼi:la (Yavapai), and Bidááʼ Haʼaztʼiʼ Tsékooh (Navajo).

The invader should not be given the power to rename the world. We can correct it. We can make it right.

Will we do it though?

[shutterandsentence]

Safari in the smoke

Photo: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

[aimeekb]

Storm clouds moving over El Capitan, Yosemite🇺🇸

[fenthebonebreaker]

#0053 Yosemite Valley, California, USA.

Going to do a series of all 63 of the national parks in the US in chronological order that they were founded.

Yosemite actually started as a state park, it's creation laying the groundwork for the entire national park system (thanks John Muir). It was later converted from a state park, to a national one.

[knight-in-sour-armor]

[justwannaperfection]

August 16 2022, Horseshoe Bend, Arizona

[dougielombax]

*whiteshell noises*

Mount Rainier National Park.

The name of the mountain in the language of the local Native American peoples is Tahoma. I think…

I think Tahoma sounds better.