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By Kurt Repanshek - August 4th, 2023

Dear readers,

There’s a reason that other media outlets watch us for stories about national parks.

Recently, The Wall Street Journal followed our lead (by a month) on the hundreds of millions of dollars Booz Allen Hamilton is raking in from recreation.gov. Two Senators cited our story in their letter to the Secretary of the Interior asking for clarity on the fees.

We broke the story of vandalism at Joshua Tree National Park back in early 2019 during the partial-government shutdown, and CNN, The Washington Post, Popular Science, and other major outlets quoted us.

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And that's just a sampling of our coverage.

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