Arizona Could Soon Get a 4th National Park. Really!

Next time I step out of our home in the Phoenix metro area, I will be in a national park if this goes on! Just kidding!

When are there too many national parks!

I think the power of US presidents based on the Antiquities Act of 1906 to create new national monuments needs to be restricted! Too much temptation to abuse it to go down in history (latest example the senile, demented 46th President, he declared 10 new sites).

"Congress passed the Chiricahua National Park Act, sending President Trump a bill that would make the southeastern Arizona monument the state’s fourth national park.

The 12,000-acre preserve sits 36 miles southeast of Willcox, where a volcanic eruption 27 million years ago left the rock spires visitors come to see. The land has carried federal protection since 1924; park status mainly means a new name and more tourists."

Saturday, October 3, 2026 - The Arizona Flyover

A Thai National Park is Mailing People's Trash Back to Them

Vice picked up on this story! What a vice! 

When "littering in Thailand’s national parks is already a crime punishable by 5 years in prison or a $16,000 fine" fail (source).

"A group of Thai tourists is about to receive an unwelcome and potentially smelly package in the mail, courtesy of the country’s Environment Minister Varawut Silpa-archa himself. The contents? Trash they left behind on their recent visit to the Khao Yai National Park. "

A Thai National Park is Mailing People's Trash Back to Them After campers left a mess at Khao Yai National Park, officials have decided on a novel approach to discouraging making a mess: [mailing] the garbage right back [to those who left it behind].