For Immediate Release: November 10, 2026
Contact: Doug Gordon | do**@***************es.com
Coalition To Protect America’s National Parks Responds To Secretary Burgum’s Plan To Gut Department of Interior
Emily Thompson, Executive Director of the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, issued the following statement in response to the Department of Interior “strategic plan” released today:
“The strategic plan released today by Secretary Burgum would further gut an agency that has been decimated by staff reductions, budget cuts and gross mismanagement. All while consolidating power in Washington where Secretary Burgum will continue to do the bidding of President Trump and his vanity projects. Adding insult to injury, the plan also proposes selling off federal lands and opening up more federal land for development of data centers.
“In short, this isn’t a plan to revamp the Department of Interior, it is a plan to destroy it, and leave our National Parks and public lands even more vulnerable.
“Congress should put an immediate stop to this ill-advised and ill-conceived plan”