SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – The growing concern that public lands across the United States are in jeopardy through mass staff firings and speculation of the government selling some of them is bringing together people across the nation for a day of protest on March 1.
South Lake Tahoe will have its own day of “standing up for public lands and employees” at Lakeview Commons beginninga t 11 a.m. Saturday. Organizers join other protests at over 100 national parks and forests, all with a common goal of saving public lands from budget cuts, staffing cuts, and drilling operations for oil.
The Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is over all public lands at Lake Tahoe.
Over President’s day weekend, 3,400 U.S. Forest Service (USFS) employees and 1,000 National Park Service employees still in their probationary period of hire were terminated, 11 of them in the Lake Tahoe Basin.
The public is invited to attend and people are asked to “bring signs and a neighbor.”
