Canceling our national parks over budget debacle

That's the basis picture being tossed out for public consumption by the Coalition of National Park Service Retires. Battle reenactments at Gettysburg? Forget it. The same at Colonial National Historical Park? Nah. Teaching park visitors about their legacy of special wild places? Who cares, especially not House Speaker John Boehner and Sen. Mitch McConnell. Read an op-ed piece on this quagmire.

Budget debacle would cripple Park Service

This article, of course, looks only at the National Park Service and how it would operate or not operate under the Republicans' budget breaker sequestration bid. And then there's the U.S. Fish and  Wildlife Service and its National Wildlife Refuge  System. Oh, and don't forget NASA and its climate change work. And NOAA and its weather/climate work. And much more.