Everybody loves park rangers. You know, those folks in the Smokey-the-Bear hats. Friendly, courteous, helpful. Now they are emerging as rogue force of resistance to Donald Trump. Scientists and people who love nature are not to be trifled with.<\/p>\n
According to a Washington Post story<\/a> by Darryl Fears and Kayla Epstein, It started with tweets by a former Badlands National Park Service employee who wanted to re-educate Trump on climate change. The initial tweets by the Badlands employee were quickly taken down, but not before earning the hashtag, #Badasslands.<\/p>\n Shortly after the initial Badlands tweets were removed, the whole thing morphed into the Twitter site, AltUSNatParkService<\/a>. It bills itself as \u201cThe Unofficial \u202a#Resistance<\/a> team of U.S. National Park<\/a> Service. Come for rugged scenery, science facts & climate change information. Run by non-gov individuals.\u201d\u00a0 In its first day, the site garnered nearly half a million followers.<\/p>\n Contributors to the site are remaining anonymous. They told the Post, “We will not be identifying ourselves due to the anger and threats coming from President Trump\u2019s loyalists. We are just here to push the science that is being dismantled by the current administration.”<\/p>\n Other protest accounts soon sprouted according to a list called Twistance<\/a> created by Alice Stollmeyer. Stollmeyer is a digital advocacy strategist and founder of the consultancy @StollmeyerEU. Her list includes accounts such as RogueEPA<\/a>, AltMuirWoods<\/a>, Rogue NOAA<\/a> , Stuff EPA Would Say<\/a> and lots more.<\/p>\n Jenna Ruddock is owner of one of the rogue sites. According to her,<\/p>\n The major impact is that people are taking note, and it\u2019s raising red flags all over the place. One of the riskiest things would be for censorship, whether it\u2019s of journalists or of scientific institutions, to go unnoticed. Censorship is a very slippery slope.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n