National Park Service

They have a 24/7 encampment in Washington, DC.

They've been decamped twice by the Trump administration, despite having current and valid permits through the US, uh, National Park, um, whatever that is, Federation, Association, uh, Department.

Um, Trump has gone after them, and it's very clear the order is coming from Trump, 'cause they come and tear all their shit down and don't really have a reason.

Uh, and then Flare has sued the federal government through the ACLU and won, and they've been, they've put their camp back together.

They had a big cutout of Trump holding a sign that said, like, "I'm a rapist, child rapist." Uh, National Park, uh, Department made them take it down.

They sued, got it put back up.

So these people are ballsy as shit, and they're on the ground 24 hours a day in DC, uh, leading citizens into Congress every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to push for impeachment with the Democrats, to thank the ones who are supporting it, to chastise the ones who aren't, uh, which we're gonna start doing with a lot more, uh, gusto, and to go into these MAGA offices and say, uh, "You should stop committing political suicide to save the ass of a dying pedophile with cankles who shits in his pants.

I'm looking at the map here from Cal Fire, air support in the area, chopper, and at least a couple other aircraft moving around.

agency uh with jurisdiction is the national park service but uh cal fire fighting like hell it's it's in a it's in a rough terrain area and obviously in a situation like that uh over the air suppression efforts are going to be a huge part of this um The fire's continuing to move upslope.

It's wind.

It's getting blown up the slope.

So, you know, it was still relative after 2001, 9-11.

But we were impressed that the stakeholders had gotten together, which represented a pretty diverse group from the families to the community, to professionals, the park service, et cetera.

And they had taken some time.

I think this was after, well, I know it was after the World Trade Center competition, and I think it was after the Pentagon.

There was a lot of that testing, a lot of that kind of editing critique.

And so the same was true for the visitor center.

And we drove the park service and the exhibit designer absolutely nuts.

There was the conversation that you just described where it had to have all of this stuff.

Check out the live cams on explore.org or visit the park website to learn more about the lives of the bears.

Fat Bear Week is a partnership between National Park Service, explore.org and the Katmai Conservancy.

I mean, there's no...

No prizes, no money, no nothing.

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For weeks, hundreds of FBI agents, California Highway Patrol officers, and National Park Service rangers combed Yosemite's rugged backcountry with dogs and helicopters.

Two dozen FBI agents commandeered part of the headquarters of the Stanislaw Hot Shots, a forest fire fighting squad based in the old gold rush town of Sonora, to sift through the little evidence they had been able to collect.

TV crews and reporters swarmed over the Yosemite region and descended on the Modesto Holiday Inn, where the families of the missing tourists maintained a vigil.

And we saw about a dozen of them who were very distraught by this fire walking out of that location.

About 75 firefighters from 12 different departments responded as well as the Suffolk Police Marine Bureau and National Park Service.

Take a listen to what the firefighter on scene, the chief had to say just moments ago.

Well, it's hard for us because our engines sit on the main roadway, Fire Island Boulevard.

How can we account for that? And there are many instances where people gravitate toward paranormal theories, but again, sticking with a strict naturalist approach, if they exist, in my opinion, these things would have to be primates.

So a few years back, when I began coming across some of these reports, the alleged military encounters, the Park Service employee encounters, and things along those lines, I started doing some digging.

I thought, well, let's see if we can find some documentation of some kind.

And sure enough, one of the first things I came across were a series of accounts collected by twin brothers who were park rangers named Larry and Lloyd Smith out at Crater Lake National Park.

Well, I was fascinated, and so I began filing FOIA requests with other national parks, of course, sticking with the Pacific Northwest initially, because traditionally that region of the United States is more commonly associated with citing reports of these alleged creatures.

I ended up filing quite a few FOIA requests, and eventually I did find a lead on a sighting report courtesy of researcher David Politis, and was able to file a FOIA for a case incident record.

I was trying to go after a copy of an alleged report that I had learned of involving a Park Service employee who had documented a group who had been visiting Olympic National Park and a sighting that they claimed that they had had back in 1991.

So I filed a FOIA request and finally hit pay dirt.

Well, that's not the only thing that's been happening at the Smithsonian.

Now it seems that Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Trump's Interior Secretary, will spend $84,000 on about a dozen National Park Service signs that will sit outside the National Museum of American History, telling visitors the exhibits inside push the curator's personal viewpoints.

Can you believe this? This is $84,000 of your money, which is quite stunning that this is what they feel like they need to spend their money on to basically warn people that what you're going into may reflect people's personal viewpoints.

Never mind the fact that these people are historians and maybe should be respected for their personal viewpoints and not just ignored by the administration, but that's the way they roll in this administration.