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Sunday 29th of March 2026

Parks All 85 million acres of national-park sites should be turned over to a consortium of federally recognized tribes in the United States. (A few areas run by the National Park Service, such as the National Mall, would be excepted.) The total acreage would not quite make up for the General Allotment Act [1887], which robbed us [Native Americans] of 90 million acres, but it would ensure that we have unfettered access to our tribal homelands. And it would restore dignity that was rightfully ours. To be entrusted with the stewardship of America's most precious landscapes would be a deeply meaningful form of restitution. Alongside the feelings of awe that Americans  experience while contemplating the god-rock of  Yosemite and other places like it, we could take inspiration in having done right by one another. David Treuer, The Atlantic, May 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Parks  Viewed from the perspective of history, Yellowstone is a crime scene. David Treuer, The Atlantic, May 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Parks Yellowstone is more valuable than gold mining slogan of local residents and businesses opposing efforts to allow gold mining on the fringes of Yellowstone National Park and in the upper Yellowtone River watershed © 2017 Kwiple.com
 
Public lands We also have a pretty good idea of, certainly, the oil and gas potential – not much! So Bears Ears isn't really about oil and gas. Ryan Zinke's mockingly reassuring announcement that the Trump administration would review the status of Bears Ears National Monument created in Utah in 2016 by Barack Obama, which review – surprise! surprise! – resulted in shrinking it by 85% to allow more than a million acres to be leased to coal and uranium miners © 2018 Kwiple.com