
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="line-height: 1; margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(44, 44, 44); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Zinke reprimanded park head after climate tweets</span></h1><div class="submitted-wrp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 223, 228); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="submitted-by" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; width: 800px; display: inline-block; border-bottom-style: none !important;">BY <a href="http://thehill.com/author/timothy-cama" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-decoration: none;" class="">TIMOTHY CAMA</a> - <span class="submitted-date" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: nowrap; border-bottom-style: none !important;">12/15/17 05:34 AM EST</span></span></div><div class="submitted-wrp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 223, 228); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/364994-zinke-reprimanded-park-head-after-climate-tweets" class="">http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/364994-zinke-reprimanded-park-head-after-climate-tweets</a></div></div><div class="">Excerpt</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); line-height: 1.4; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Interior Secretary <span class="rollover-people" data-behavior="rolloverpeople" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><a class="rollover-people-link" data-nid="345000" href="http://thehill.com/people/ryan-zinke" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; position: relative;">Ryan Zinke</a></span> brought the leader of a California park to his office last month to reprimand him <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/359405-official-national-park-account-tweets-about-overwhelming-consensus" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); text-decoration: none; display: inline; position: relative; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(42, 83, 193);" class="">for climate change-related tweets</a> the park had sent via Twitter, two sources close to the situation said.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); line-height: 1.4; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Zinke did not take any formal disciplinary action against David Smith, superintendent of Joshua Tree National Park. And the tweets at issue weren’t deleted, because they didn’t violate National Park Service or Interior Department policies.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); line-height: 1.4; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">But Zinke made it clear to Smith that the Trump administration doesn’t want national parks to put out official communications on climate change.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); line-height: 1.4; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">And by bringing Smith from California to Washington, D.C., to deliver the tongue-lashing, he also sent a message to the park service at large.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); line-height: 1.4; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">One source said Smith “got a trip to the woodshed” and described his one-on-one meeting with Zinke as “highly unusual.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-s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