While the Trump administration continues its campaign for the reduction of the federal employees, the National Park Service employees have carried out more than 700 employees of more than 700 emails, according to an internal email that was sent to the supervisory authorities at the end of last week.
This brings at least 1,700 to the number of permanent employees of the whole year that the service in this month-well-being America has lost the most popular federal authority. The number corresponds to around 9% of the agency's workforce.
In addition, remaining employees were banned from travel – unless the enforcement of the national security or immigration authorities – and some employees have found that the credit cards that they use for the purchase of gas for service vehicles and basic supplies such as toilet paper for the toilets according to the interviews with Park -Service employees who have participated with the documents raised with times. It is not clear how long these measures will be available.
If the cuts are not restored, “this will simply not be the same parking service” National Park Conservation Assn. “All of these places are so beautiful and are so well protected for so long. To continue shaking up the staff is illogical. “
National Park Service officers did not answer a request for comments.
A memo that was sent last week to Park Supervisors by Rita J. Moss, the deputy director of the agency for workforce and inclusion, said: “We have over 700 in the entire service”, which “participate in the deported withdrawal program”.
This is the name, which is given by Elon Musk's so-called Ministry of Government Efficiency for the Buyout Program, which enables federal employees to step down now, but continue to receive their salaries and services by September. Such programs usually attract older employees who approach retirement.
At the other end of the spectrum, around 1,000 employees of the trial period park -generally people in the first two years of service who do not yet have employment protection were dismissed together with tens of thousands of other subject workers in a multi -cyst cleaning on February 14.
The constant employees who dismiss or take the buyout include people who record fees for parking, maintenance workers who clean the parking facilities, and rangers who patroll the hinterland and lose and save injured hikers.
In January, the Trump administration announced the operational chaos for Park Supervisors and thousands of seasonal workers who occupied the 433 national parks and historical sites of America in the main seasons that their vacancies were “lifted” for the 2025 season. The step triggered panic in the ranks of the parking workers and threw the vacation plans of hundreds of millions of people who visit the parks every year.
Confronted with public outline and serious warnings in which national parks such as Yosemite and the Grand Canyon were celebrated could be too short to surgery-the Trump government reversed the course last week. The plan to eliminate seasonal employees and even increase the number of temporary workers who can hire the parks from around 6,300 to 7,700.
The changing gate posts turned the heads of the supervisory authorities.
“It is so crazy because they do not give us a warning and happen to conclude things with the announcement of 12 hours,” said a park service supervisor, who asked not to be named out of fear of retaliation. “We would never do that to the public.”
The disorder comes to almost 15 years without significant funding increases in the National Park Service budget, said Brengel. “This means that many employees have already done more than one job and have been doing this for years,” she said.
Despite the pressure to “do more with less” the remaining employees, since managers in Moribund companies so much like to say that the parks themselves have never been more popular.
More than 325 million people visited America's national parks in 2023. That is much more than twice as many people (136 million) who visited professional football, baseball, basketball and hockey games.