Casual reminder that many landscapes in US national parks are the result of centuries of land management by indigenous people and the Parks system has interfered with indigenous management practices and led to some degredation of the ecosystems

Not so casual reminder that a great many of those parks were Indigenous homes. Not just managed, not just cared for.

Not so casual reminder that the oft quoted grandfather of the National Park System Theodore Roosevelt was an unabashed racist who took 86 million acres of Indigenous Tribal land to expand the National parks.

Not so casual reminder that conflating lack of human life to lack of human interference is hugely problematic and completely disregards the eugenics hidden within most ecofascist ideology.

When Shenandoah National Park was created, the NPS systematically destroyed all the structures of the people who had been living there. Their goal was to erase any evidence the land had been occupied.