Nine out of 12 sitting member of the Department of the Interior ’s National Park System Advisory Board renounce on Monday in protestation of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke , who is very fond of having subordinatesfly flagstone in his honorandhang dead animalsin his office but plain not meeting with them .
Per theWashington Post , the nine advisers “ abruptly quit Monday Nox out of foiling that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke had refused to meet with them or convoke a individual meeting last year . ” With the board members gone , the Union government has no “ functioning consistence to designate historical or natural landmarks , ” the paper report — not that there ’s any indication Zinke is particularly concerned in doing anything other thanshrinking the sizing of subsist landmarks , consistent with Donald Trump and his White House’sgeneralized disdainfor environmental and land - use regulation .
“ We empathize the complexness of transition but our petition to engage have been ignored and the matter on which we want to brief the newfangled Department team are distinctly not part of its agendum , ” board chair and former Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles wrote in a letter of the alphabet to Zinke , per the Post . “ I care the National Park System and Service well and will always be dedicate to their success . ”
As the Post reported , Zinke disband one advisory dead body dealing with climate modification and natural resources , replaced another on wildlife conservation with a “ Hunting and Shooting Sports Conservation Council , ” andsuspended hundreds of others . The National Park Service remains without a Zinke - appointed director and is currently supervised by an acting director , Mike Reynolds .
The White House ’s nominee to runenvironmental and scientific agencieshave mostly beenindustry flacks , unqualified clowns , and masses diametrically oppose to the functions of the agencies they’resupposed to run — so people resignation at environmental and scientific advisory control panel is hardly a surprisal .
In flock of vitrine , Trump ’s administration has move first , disband some federal advisory councils like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’sclimate boardand mass - firing members at others like thePresidential Advisory Council on HIV / AIDSor the Environmental Protection Agency’sBoard of Science Counselors . The White House science and engineering science division was reportedlypicked clean of staffersby earlier this year .
[ Washington Post ]
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