100,000 Americans wrote to Trump’s Park Service to protest national park service-fee hike, and the Park Service actually listened

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Embattled Trump Secretary of the Interior chair Ryan Zinke (previously)
unveiled a plan to raise the service charge for using our nation’s
parks to $70/day (it’s currently $25/day), a move that would price
access to national parks out of the budgets of 71% of working-class Americans.

More than 100,000 people sent overwhelmingly negative, overwhelmingly enraged comments to the EPA about the proposal and the EPA blinked, canceling the proposal.

https://boingboing.net/2018/04/04/together-loud-strong.html