National park cuts

[Thomas B]

What’s going on with this?

Is this similar to what is going on in Patagonia, Argentina?

[Gary Hall]

Thomas, apologies, I misplaced this note and have been out of town for much of the time since you wrote it. I looked up Argentina and found this:

"Argentina's government has slashed environmental and national park budgets under President Javier Milei, with an 80% cut to the National Fire Management Service in 2024 and further projected cuts in 2026. These "chainsaw" austerity measures have severely limited firefighting, reduced staff in parks like Los Alerces, and hampered wildfire response during intense, drought-driven blaze crises in 2026."

While there are similarities to the US administration's approach to environmental and park budgets and services, ours is a bit different. The National Park Service has seen a proposed budget that would dramatically reduce funding--- again -- during this year. Whether it gets finalized remains with Congress and the president's ultimate signature, so we'll see as the months progress what impact it has. The cuts are not specifically aimed at environmental aspects of the NPS budget, but generally across all services and supplies and all, I believe. 

That's how I understand it, others might have more information. 

 

Gary M. Hall

Mayor of the Town of Estes Park

Cell 970-744-9052

Email: gh...@estes.org

On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 3:39 AM Thomas B <thomm...@gmail.com> wrote:

What’s going on with this?

Is this similar to what is going on in Patagonia, Argentina?

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[Thomas B]

I am talking about Israeli’s in Argentina burning down national forest land so they can buy it for cheap. It’s a running conspiracy that Argentinian people have, they keep finding Israelis starting forest fires and there are numerous videos of it.

Obviously a lot of them are going to run away from the war, and a lot of them already are. They have plans to buy uninhabited islands in Greece, or Greece is just going to give them to them or something within that nature.

Is this the reality of these National Park cut’s in America? That America will basically give them safe haven, or something within the nature for cheap?

Any talk of this, from what I have looked up about Argentina and Greece, is considered anti-semetic. 

Looking through the Bible, the word “semetic” comes from the word “Shem”. The jews are the descendants of Shem and what not. Though Noah had three children who went on to inhabit the world, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, they believe they are the only descendants of Shem. That’s just where the word “anti-semetic” comes from, for your information.

Are the Israelis going to be buying up National Park land in America in case their country is destroyed? With the war and what not. Is this kind of a back-up plan that is ready to go, just needs the presidents signature, in case the worst happens?

Or is the nature of this simply to cut National Park money, so they can spend it on whatever else they need?

[Gary Hall]

I'd say it's a simple matter of the current administration having different priorities than funding the NPS. 

Gary M. Hall

Mayor of the Town of Estes Park

Cell 970-744-9052

Email: gh...@estes.org

[Thomas B]

Oh ok. Yeah the war in Iran is probably the cause. They need money to go fight another 20 year war in the middle of the desert for some mysterious reason. 

Money could be better used to keep Americans safe, but it’s basically illegal to even mention that, so I will just keep my thoughts to myself.

God bless