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This Land is Their Land Now: GREEDY Trump is Selling Out The US Beloved Wilderness

During the McCarthy eras darkest days, public lands came under attack. History now repeats itself and this may be the last chance to defend whats ours

When Biden came into power he stopped the changes and sales Trump was making.. But its begun again

Nate Schweber, The Guardian 24 MAY 2025

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In 1913, on a remote, windswept stretch of buffalo grass prairie in western North Dakota, Roald Peterson was born the ninth of 11 children to hardy Norwegian homesteaders.

The child fell in love with the ecosystem he was born into. It was a landscape as awe inspiring and expansive as the ocean, with hawks riding sage scented winds by day and the Milky Way glowing at night.

As a young adult, he decided to study the emerging field of range science in college, which led him to Louisiana where he was so appalled by the harsh conditions faced by sharecroppers that he volunteered with a farmers union.

After serving stateside in the army air forces during the second world war, he took a job in Montana with the US Forest Service, monitoring cattle and sheep grazing on public lands. He took to his work with high morale.

Unfortunately for Peterson, his career took off at the height of anticommunist hysteria, at which time the second red scare, also known as the McCarthy era, was well under way.

In the midst of this culture war, Petersons environmental advocacy and concern for exploited workers made him a glaring target, a man with a bullseye on his back. In 1949, two anonymous informants falsely accused Peterson of having been a communist, setting off an invasive loyalty investigation

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Montanans from across the political spectrum rallied to his defense. So did the Pulitzer Prize winning historian and conservationist Bernard DeVoto, who was so moved by the case that he penned the most controversial column of his 20 year run at Harpers Magazine: Due Notice to the FBI.

In it, DeVoto delivered a bold defense of civil liberties in the face of growing authoritarianism one of the earliest national articles to openly criticize both FBI director J Edgar Hoover and senator Joseph McCarthy.

As the red scare escalated, Petersons loyalty was investigated a second time, and then a third when another informant told the FBI he was behaving like a homosexual

Peterson was fired from the Forest Service in early 1953. He lost his familys ranch in Montanas Bitterroot valley not far from where the show Yellowstone is filmed.

Petersons wife left him and was committed by her family to an asylum. A judge awarded custody of his three children to the state, placing them in foster care.

A granddaughter, whom I located and interviewed, told me the children were repeatedly sexually abused the two youngest later died by suicide.

Petersons 2004 obituary, penned by his surviving daughter, states that he was blacklisted by the infamous Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn and J Edgar Hoover group of legal thugs.

That the one in the middle was Donald Trumps mentor underscores the connection between then and now.

Peterson was targeted during a low chapter in American history one that feels eerily familiar today.

It was a time when reactionaries in Congress plotted to sell off public lands just as they do now. When the US Forest Service was under intense pressure to clear cut more trees just as it is now. When public lands faced destruction in the name of energy production just as they do now.

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Pat McCarran, a US senator from Nevada, in 1947.

The political exploitation of fear, paranoia, conspiracy, false accusations, show trials, refusal of fair play and apocalypticism could be called McCarranism as accurately as McCarthyism.
McCarrans work still fills our headlines today: it was he who legalized peacetime concentration camps in the case that the president declares an emergency which Trump does frequently.

And it was he, over President Harry Trumans veto, who passed the 1952 law that Trump is using to jail foreign born students without arrest warrants.

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More than 14,000 people were forced out of government jobs during the red scare a mass purge that mirrors the targeted layoffs we're witnessing now.

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Workers pulling up fir trees at a civilian conservation corps reforestation camp in April 1933.

Meanwhile, Trump has made no secret of his ambitions a ramp up of logging and drilling across public lands, and a sweeping plan to shrink up to six national monuments in the south west.

Taken together, a larger strategy comes into focus: Republicans are laying the groundwork to sell off some of the nation?s most treasured public assets. And it begins with gutting the numbers and the morale of the very people who protect them.

Bill Wade boasts nine decades of perspective on the US?s public lands. The son of a ranger, the 84-year-old was raised inside Mesa Verde national park in Colorado and went on to have a long career in the agency, eventually serving as supervisor at Shenandoah national park in Virginia.

Now retired, Wade serves as the executive director of the Association of National Park Rangers, which makes him an excellent ear to have on the ground. He has a bracing take on conservation workers and our public lands.

Morale, he says, is probably the lowest hes seen in his 58 year career.

Thats a reasonable take, given that the message from Trump is, to paraphrase the novelty slogan 'Purging will continue until morale improves'

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February 2025 brought the Valentines Day massacre, when the misnamed department of government efficiency DOGE FIRED 1000 National Park Service employees and 3400 from the US Forest Service.

In March, courts ruled the firings lawless.

More buyouts followed. In May, the administration signaled it would slash the agencys budget by 40% the biggest cut in its 109 year history.

With parks having boasted record visitation in 2024, this year they are already reporting shortages in visitor center hours campground accessibility sanitation interpretation, such as ranger led hikes and environmental stewardship, such as trail maintenance and wildfire prevention programs with youth conservation volunteers.

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These people protected US forests and lands.

Their jobs have now vanished due to Trumps GREED for $$$$.....

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The America I loved is gone....Trump is destroying it