Afternoon Briefing: Survey shows support for parks unifies people from all walks
Over the last few months, the future of national public lands has been precarious because of staff shortages and funding rollbacks under President Donald Trump's massive federal overhaul.
In a nationally representative survey this March, the Trust for Public Land found that Americans across demographic and ideological lines value parks and use them frequently; two-thirds of people who said they voted for Kamala Harris and two-thirds of people who voted for Trump said they've talked with someone else at a park that they didn't know before, and over half said it was with somebody of a different social or economic background.
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