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The Longmont Times-Call editorial: Silencing Park Service doesn’t serve the people

By 01/30/2017 | updated 9 years ago

When in the days following Donald Trump’s election as president, scientists working for government agencies began backing up their data to outside servers, it might have seemed a bit paranoid.

But when mention of climate change science was taken down from the White House website the morning of the inauguration, those scientists began to look prescient.

The day quickly got worse for those who manage our public lands.

During the inauguration, a Park Service employee retweeted a New York Times tweet with photos comparing Trump’s inauguration crowd to that of Obama’s 2009 inauguration.

Read more at The Longmont Times-Call.

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