tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34716674423396866352011-11-24T18:10:32.593-08:00re·form: to improve by alteration, substitution, abolition, etc.Ranger Xnoreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471667442339686635.post-10644466601014181742011-10-14T21:44:00.000-07:002011-10-14T21:59:18.669-07:00

The posts to this blog reference several other National Park Service whistleblowers. Have you reported your observations of corruption, nepotism, sexual harassment, civil rights violations, etc.? If not, please consider making an official report now. You can do so anonymously. Other NPS employees have been referenced here who had the courage to speak out. Please feel free to share your

Ranger Xnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471667442339686635.post-9196462807246776542007-12-29T12:16:00.000-08:002011-10-14T21:54:25.368-07:00

2005 Land Trust Census Report Definition of a Land Trust: A land trust is a nonprofit organization that, as all or part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisition, or by its stewardship of such land or easements. Key Findings of 2005 National Land Trust Census Total acreage conserved through private means is 37

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Proponents of maintaining the status quo of government (mis)management of public lands will criticize conservation land trusts. I welcome the criticism because it forces me to learn more about an alternative to National Park Service bureaucracy. Some critics feel that private, non-profit trusts will be more susceptible to pressure than the government. In short, they don't trust trusts to protect

Ranger Xnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471667442339686635.post-3183907423057867092007-12-19T08:03:00.000-08:002011-10-14T21:55:33.104-07:00

When I worked at Crater Lake National Park, a lead seasonal told me that when in uniform I was to have no opinion. It's bad enough being told not to express an opinion, which to me seems to violate the First Amendment, but being told not to have an opinion--to purge my mind of anything but officially sanctioned thoughts--is utterly repugnant and Orwellian. But sadly, that seems to be the culture

Ranger Xnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471667442339686635.post-19132426268644349612007-12-09T08:06:00.000-08:002011-10-14T21:56:06.023-07:00

NPS CORRUPTION Ranger Bob, a retired NPS employee who authors the Retread Ranger Station, discusses his experience with careerism in the NPS: The common element is clear: the guys who are getting ahead put a lot of effort into self-promotion, and were quite willing to dump their workload onto colleagues. Conversely, the ones who worked hard and picked up the slack eventually got discouraged and

Ranger Xnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471667442339686635.post-91305815131404602432007-08-12T09:53:00.000-07:002011-10-14T21:56:45.496-07:00

Another benefit of eliminating the excessive and wasteful NPS bureaucracy would be the transfer of policing of national park areas from the federal government to local authorities. At the political news site Capitol Hill Blue, journalist Doug Thompson describes his chilling encounter with armed NPS goons in his article American Gestapo: For the last two years, the Park Service has brought in its

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The need to remove government from land management is illustrated in a recent article from the AP: Earmarks prove popular, dangerous: Given the recent headlines, lawmakers might seem eager to do away with earmarks, the narrowly drawn legislative provisions that pay for pet projects. A former congressman and lobbyist are in prison because of earmark abuses, the Senate's senior Republican is

Ranger Xnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471667442339686635.post-40650835978099618422007-08-08T16:19:00.000-07:002011-10-14T21:57:41.265-07:00

The National Park Service bureaucracy is out of control. The government spends twice as much on regional offices and national administration than it does to operate the 58 national parks in the system. A better government would be cleared of excessive regulation and would allow competition. To use an ecological analogy, the government has become like modern forests: dense and overgrown to the

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