Parks Are Being Dismantled Before Our Very Eyes

National parks as we know and love them are changing — dismantled before our very eyes under the new Trump administration in just six weeks. Fired staff, canceled building leases, erased history. We see the writing on the wall, and it’s dark.

But the National Parks Conservation Association was created for moments exactly like this, and we’re not backing down. In fact, the American public is really angry over these harmful disruptions to the National Park Service and engaging through our organization like never before.

Generations of Americans have seen fit to protect our nation’s natural wonders and cultural places. When President Theodore Roosevelt visited the Grand Canyon in 1908, industries wanted to mine it — but upon seeing the landscape’s unparalleled beauty, he announced in a speech, “leave it as it is… The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. What you can do is to keep it for your children and your children’s children and for all who come after you, as one of the great sights which every American, if he can travel at all, should see.”