https://www.startribune.com/tolkkinen-slow-down-pete-stauber-theres-only-one-boundary-waters/601224696

hope this works. i found this interesting and alarming.

If any of you live in this persons district maybe you could write an email opposing this.
thanks

Today we are under siege on so many fronts with 1000 NPS employees laid off, many Federal Wildlife biologists also laid off.
I am trying to tread lightly here; butt can this great forum page keep walking the balance beam and ignore the plea of many.
This forum exists because of the BWCA-no other reason.
Thanks all you moderators.

Some can bare the losses some like myself, finding it hard to grope with it. The issue is much more important than I will ever be.

How do we move forward-we can't bury are head in the sand forever.

I hear your concerns. I also hear the concerns of those that are greatly concerned with the national debt and want a much smaller government that operates on a budget. Maybe we can do both. However many peoples "oxs" are going to get gored in the process of pulling the national debt into line.

ockycamper: "I hear your concerns. I also hear the concerns of those that are greatly concerned with the national debt and want a much smaller government that operates on a budget. Maybe we can do both. However many peoples "oxs" are going to get gored in the process of pulling the national debt into line. "

Thanks for your diplomatic response. We have to keep open minds and our cordial minds operating but not bury are heads in the sand.

You take a surgical knife, not a machete in cutting procedures.

The Department of the Interior’s National Park Service released a new report that finds visitor spending in communities near national parks in 2023 resulted in a record high $55.6 billion benefit to the nation’s economy and supported 415,400 jobs. ?This does not include income produced outside the main hub of the park. This will be up substantially in 2024.
The National parks budget is 0.0006% of the total budget and then you can also subtract income they brought in. Some parks have a net income.

I'm sorry but if we can't discuss the impact of these cuts without making people upset, what can we even discuss here. If you voted for this and you refuse to own it, I guess that really shows the bounds of your passion for the place we all enjoy. In another world you're writing your elected officials and asking them to spare the staff who make this place what it is. Or at least attempting to organize a replacement for what's being destroyed. Or if you believe the private sector or groups of volunteers can really do it better, when are you going to step up and make something happen?