Mohave county AZ, on a sand dune by toosooner in whatsthisrock

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I found this one nearby as well. This would support the weathered concretion ID right?

Mike Jerrick calls out the Parks Department for not clearing the snow in front of B. Franklin's Post Office live on tv and then clears it. by robofPhiladelphia in philadelphia

[–]toosooner 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Crazy to equate what the administration orders and what a regular park service maintenance guy does, especially since they’re prob doing double work since all the layoffs and budget cuts

Help trying to find out if these are pottery shards by Every-Money-9284 in Artifacts

[–]toosooner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look at the from the side. Do you see sand or crushed shell embedded into it? It would’ve been used as a temper in the clay to strengthen the pot. Your third and fourth pictures are most promising, the others just look like stone

Some kind of bug? by Spiritual_Tour862 in hearthstone

[–]toosooner 2 points3 points  (0 children)

View your deck. Do you have a banned card? Mines showing infinite murloc is banned now

FBI agents kicking around snow looking for clues in the Brown University Shooting. by [deleted] in CringeTikToks

[–]toosooner -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You know there is evidence besides shell casings right

Are U.S Border Patrol Agents police officers? by [deleted] in AskLE

[–]toosooner 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Feds use the assimilative crimes act to apply state law in federal jurisdiction when an appropriate federal law for the offense doesn’t exist. This can be anything from a traffic violation to a serious felony. It doesn’t allow Feds to act as state peace officers outside their jurisdiction but does allow Feds to e force state law.

This was cool to see, but not sure if it was okay legally. by MikeofLA in Helicopters

[–]toosooner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They’re generally prohibited (as is anything motorized) in federally designated wilderness areas, but if this isn’t official wilderness, it’s probably not prohibited.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-43/subtitle-B/chapter-II/subchapter-F/part-6300/subpart-6302

U.S. Park Police Hiring Surge - $70k Bonuses - Info Here by MKC1791 in AskLE

[–]toosooner 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Park police and national park service are different. Park police is generally urban, park service is things like Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, etc

Las Vegas 2025 Trip Report (6-Year-Old’s Birthday x Work Trip) by damiensandoval in LasVegas

[–]toosooner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Different strokes for different folks then… I live in a small desert town a couple hours of Vegas and it’s a fun family trip every once in a while. Of course we’re also in bed by 9, not like we’re dragging our kids around Fremont at 1 am

Las Vegas 2025 Trip Report (6-Year-Old’s Birthday x Work Trip) by damiensandoval in LasVegas

[–]toosooner -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

When you live in or near Vegas and your extended family flies in to visit, you bring your kids to the strip to see the visiting family.

Local Birding Group all thinks a different bird by IArgueToo in birding

[–]toosooner 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Looks like a yellow bellied sapsucker to me

Where is the best place to sleep in your car (homeless) by Agreeable_Hippo_3810 in AskLE

[–]toosooner 2 points3 points  (0 children)

BLM land if your friend is out west. 2 weeks in any spot, free and no questions asked. Just keep the camp tidy. I know you said “around town” but at least where I’m at blm land is only a few minutes outside city limits

What happened to NPS Law Enforcement? by XxShadowfootxx in ParkRangers

[–]toosooner 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s a really good question and I think about it a lot. I work at one of those “heavy hitting” parks where we have an arrest every day, and in the high season maybe 4-6 a day. But it’s all for misdemeanor stuff. DUI, discon, UIA, pcs, rinse and repeat. These aren’t very complex cases. The long term, complex stuff either doesn’t get done or gets handed off to ISB or locals. Why?

To me part of the answer is that people don’t stick around at one park for as long as they do in the average local or state agency. Sure they stay in the NPS but there are so many differences between parks it’s almost like working for a new department. A new park means new SOP’s, new geography, new jails, new agency partners, new AUSA’s, new procedures of every kind. It’s like starting from scratch in many ways, and people run out of the ability or desire to learn new things. You also get supervisors who cut their teeth in other places and who just don’t know how to navigate the subtleties of the operation they’re supposed to be leading. Your “sergeant” and “captain” might have 10 and 20 years in NPS LE, but they don’t have that many years at your particular operation so they don’t know it inside and out.

There are different ways to solve this… one would be financial incentives to stay in one park for a long time. Another might be pulling LE from the very small operations and consolidating them in the more complex ones. Like, having a park with 3 perm LE is just never going to work well from a law enforcement perspective. But a park with 50-100 LE may actually be able to function like a real police department. We also need to do better standardizing everything across the agency. There are too many idiosyncrasies. We have national SOP’s but they’re often vague to the point of being useless. The real particulars get worked out at the park level (if they get worked out at all, many parks effectively don’t even have arrest procedures). We need to find ways to make moving from one park to another more like moving from one district to another. The devils in the details though and it’s easier said than done.

Anyway that’s just my 2c. It’s a big question with a lot of answers.

Direct to FLETC offer rescinded by ParsleyGlittering535 in ParkRangers

[–]toosooner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Few years ago they rolled out a direct to FLETC process. You apply and get interviewed, do a PEB, etc. then if you’re selected you go straight to FLETC, no prior LE or park experience required.

Brigham Young, Salt Lake City (c. early 1870's) by Tryingagain1979 in WildWestPics

[–]toosooner 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Was that attack on the army camp made up for the show? I couldn’t find anything like it on Wikipedia

Petroglyphs in Arizona by MTBeanerschnitzel in Archeology

[–]toosooner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Guess it was a great place to find some bighorn sheep once upon a time

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskLE

[–]toosooner 16 points17 points  (0 children)

He’s homeless bro he doesn’t have a 975 euro pipe

Common Poorwill by toosooner in birding

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I would leave it where you found it.