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Okay. Who's The Jackass From Toledo Vandalizing The Joshua Tree National Park? | Scott Sands | 1370 WSPD

This is why we can't have nice things. Joshua Tree National Park vandalized by someone from "the 419."

https://wspd.iheart.com/featured/scott-sands/content/2019-01-11-jackass-from-toledo-vandalizing-national-park/

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/nation/2019/01/11/travesty-this-nation-people-are-destroying-joshua-trees-joshua-tree-national-park/

From the article:

Joshua Tree National Park Superintendent David Smith told National Parks Traveler that visitors have been illegally off-roading, cutting down trees and spray painting rocks, among other infractions.

"Joshua trees were actually cut down to make new roads,” Smith said.

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Joshua Tree resident Rand Abbott, who has frequented the park since the 1980s, said seeing the damaged trees was “devastating.”

Even before the shutdown, Abbott said vandalism and rule-breaking were common in the sprawling park. But he noted that he has “never seen it this bad.”

“Christmastime and New Year’s is one of the busiest times for the park,” he said. “You take that, and then you take away anybody that’s in a national park uniform, and there’s no regulations whatsoever. I was astonished at what people were doing.”

On Thursday, a massive juniper tree near one of the park’s campsites caught his attention. People had climbed up into its branches and broken them off for firewood, Abbott said.

“I camped in that campsite two years ago,” he said. “This thing was huge. We used to get shade underneath it and it’s gone. I started crying, because what did that tree do?”

But Abbott said there could be a “silver lining” to the shutdown: It has drawn people’s attention to the abuse that has been going on at national parks nationwide for years.

His own efforts to preserve Joshua Tree have also received recognition and may be starting to spark change. Abbott said visitors have approached him saying how they took extra care to tidy their campsites before leaving the park. Some have even volunteered to take a day out of their trips to help pick up trash.

“If they truly realize that there is no Plan B for our national parks, then maybe they will start taking care of Plan A,” he said. “It has to be done.”

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