On January 20th the National Park Service retweeted a side-by-side photo of the crowds at Obama's 2009 inauguration and Trump's. Soon after they were banned from tweeting.
In less than 24 hours the NPS tweeted an apology and the Twitter account has been up and running since. As a side effect of this temporary shut down and ban was the creation of an alternative account aptly named AltUSNPS (@altusnps). They claim to be forest rangers from national parks all across the nation.
The Alt USNPS account is not holding back, climate change is the foremost topic covered and now they have created stickers and t-shirts with a brand new "alt" logo for purchase. All proceeds of these items go to the National Park Foundation which is even better. If you are curious for more info you can follow them on Twitter or email them altusnps@gmail.com.
Then on January 24th I posted the following article:
USDA scrambles to ease concerns after researchers were ordered to stop publishing news releases
NPS was not the only entity asked to stopped sharing scientific information about climate change and this has many on their toes.
Keep an eye out for the March for Science. Dates have not been set yet, but you can sign up here.
Update: The March will take place on Earth Day, April 22, 2017.
There is a lot more information I could share on this topic, but I have chosen to leave it at the beginnings and follow it more from there. Please leave your comments, thanks for reading!
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