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A few hours later, a more visibly rebellious Twitter account joined them, with @BadHombreNPS re-posting the deleted climate change tweets, along with messages from the NPS’s official Twitter account tracking climate change, and other park Twitters that have reported on global warming.

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The most interesting of these new accounts, though, is @AltNatParkSer, which is the only one of these rogue accounts currently claiming to be run by active members of the Service. According to its Twitter account description, the group is “The Unofficial ‘Resistance’ team of U.S. National Park Service. Not taxpayer subsidised! Come for rugged scenery, fossil beds, 89 million acres of landscape.” Apparently run by three rangers working at Washington’s Mount Rainier, its users spent the afternoon decrying the censorship of climate change data. (Also, some Independence Day memes ended up in there, too.)

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As multiple people have pointed out, there’s no evidence (beyond the initial Badlands tweets) that any of these people have any connection to the National Park Service itself, rather than just being online commenters trying to get their concerns heard by adopting the services as a guise. But there’s something weird enough about the image of rogue park rangers, fighting to keep their workplaces thriving, that makes it kind of fun to believe it’s true: