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In 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed a declaration that removed Yellowstone from public action, and preserved it as a recreational space for all to enjoy. The tribes who’d lived on that land for thousands of years were forced to leave by the government, and the Army was brought in to keep them out.

Frick I hate Vice so much.

The army was sent in because Congress decided it didn't want to actually fund any kind of National Park Service so there was literally nobody who was given jurisdiction to enforce any of the regulations in the park. Their primary job there was to stop white ruralcels from fricking the place up.

Among them were John Muir, who founded the environmental nonprofit Sierra Club and was known for making derogatory anti-Black and anti-Indigenous statements.

John Muir is the reason people give a shit about the parks or their natural environment, at least at the time. If it wasn't for him it's likely the national park system never would have taken off.

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The modern communist seethes as the prospect of people enjoying nature, which can only be fully experienced through effort and physical exertion. Ther should be factories making Funko pops and antidepressants instead of trees, the communist things

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