Dismantling America, one business at a time

Big Green may have a bigger, richer and greedier shark than the National Park Service, but the latter can be considered the worst glutton when it comes to taking others’ property. Since its authorization in 1916, the NPS has destroyed so many private homes and businesses to make way for new parks that, if shown by pins on a map, the pattern of personal heartbreak it has left in its wake would look more like a carpet-bombing run than the growth of a beloved national institution.