All posts tagged "National Park Service"

The Trump administration admitted his planned 250-foot arch near Arlington National Cemetery will harm historic sites but insisted the project move forward.

The National Park Service conceded that the monument would adversely affect the cemetery, the Lincoln Memorial, and several dozen other historic sites, according to a document obtained by the Washington Post. Officials wrote that the "adverse effects cannot be fully avoided," but argued the arch could not be built anywhere else, The Post reported.

"The administration is being very transparent in their overt hostility to public input and the regulatory process and the result will be to permanently disfigure one of the nation's most revered and richly symbolic cultural landscapes," Charles Birnbaum, the founder of the Cultural Landscape Foundation, said in a statement....

The Trump administration — fresh off a failed attempt to blame vandals for botched work on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool — has tried once again to dodge responsibility and enraged locals in the process.

Trump's latest political jab spurred one D.C. local to snap off a photo and send it to Newsweek, along with a vent over her frustration.

The photo shows that the National Park Service has posted a sign on the monument blaming previous administrations for neglecting the site, claiming "more than half of the 58 water supply ports were so clogged that they were deemed nonfunctioning."...

Hundreds of tourists staying in landmark US national parks like Yosemite and the Grand Canyon face a deadline Thursday to leave due to the government shutdown.

A young girl shot herself to death at Yellowstone Yellowstone National Park on Saturday morning.

The National Park Service reported Friday morning that the memorial to President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C. was vandalized overnight. According to the Associated Press, a park police officer on patrol discovered that someone had thrown green paint on the statue of the former president and on the memorial's floor.

Outspoken Tea Party Republican Rep. Louis Gohmert (TX) got into a late-night altercation with U.S. Park Police over a parking ticket earlier this month. According to Politico, Gohmert attempted to pull rank with the police officers to get out of the citation.