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Fired National Park Service Staff Will Be Reinstated, but Long-Term Threats Loom - Inside Climate News
March 21, 2025 - 14, the Trump administration fired around 1,000 employees from the National Park Service, part of a widespread federal workforce purge that many have referred to as the “Valentine’s Day Massacre.”
National Parks Conservation Association
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Lost Jobs, Broken Hearts and Harms to National Parks · National Parks Conservation Association
February 20, 2025 - Staff terminated from the National Park Service Feb. 14, 2025, speak out to share their stories, frustration and anger — and how the loss of their dream jobs will affect parks.
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'Today, we celebrate': Judge says National Park Service must reinstate all fired employees
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December 18, 2024Trump administration backtracks on eliminating thousands of national parks employees — The memo addressed only temporary seasonal employees. It said nothing about the roughly 1,000 members of the National Park Service’s permanent workforce who were fired Friday.
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April 28, 2024The white house fired 1,000 employees from NPS this week (but is allowing 5k seasonal hires). What positions were actually terminated?
I'm one of the thousand. I preformed crucial operational tasks at my park. Any and every position was terminated without any considerations for what purpose they serve to the Park and how valuable that service is to the Public. This was an across the board firing of ANYONE that could be fired simply because they were still within their one or two year probation period. Admin, Maintenance, Utilities, Resource, Interp. It doesn't matter. They illegally fired anyone they could to get their numbers up. This was a blatant abuse of the probation system. The vast majority of these people were well preforming employees who benefited the NPS. The ones who under preform and don't provide any benefits to the agency can be AND ARE routinely terminated within their probation period with properly documented cause. This mass wave of firings provided no actual documentation, just a boiler plate "you are not preforming up to agency standards and have no right to remain in this position" termination notice. Trust me, they are sending the same form to everyone. When the sent me mine they also accidently sent me someone else's notice. It was the exact same with the name, position, and location changed. These were one thousand permanent employees, most of which preformed important roles at their Park. Many were even crucial to the day to day operations of their park. The Park Service as a whole will suffer from this. The 2025 season is going to be a rough for the NPS. *Edited out a couple grammatical errors, I wrote this after a very long day. *another edit: for those asking me to be specific about what crucial things I did, here's a follow up comment with that information: https://www.reddit.com/r/NationalPark/s/z2He8A9ogV More on reddit.com
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May 6, 2024Rocky Mountain National Park employees fired illegally
Rocky Mountain National Park - One of the most beautiful parks in the country, located in the Colorado Rockies. ... Rocky Mountain NP employees have been fired illegally. More on reddit.com
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July 12, 2024The Intercept
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NPS Official: White House Policies Trying to Drive Federal Employees to Quit
In June, the Office of Personnel Management instructed federal agencies to ensure that they do not give out a “disproportionate” number of high employee ratings. In December, the outlet Government Executive reported that the office was preparing to expressly limit the number of top scores. Critics of President Donald Trump’s administration say the rollout of the new ratings system at the Park Service could herald broader changes across the federal government. “The National Park Service is enforcing this with great vigor, which is surprising and disappointing given how many staff the National Park Service has lost in the last year, and how overworked the staff currently are,” said Tim Whitehouse, executive director of the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.
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National Parks Conservation Association
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Parks Group Welcomes Reinstatement of Probationary Park Staff but Warns of Ongoing National Park Staffing Crisis · National Parks Conservation Association
March 20, 2025 - Washington, DC – Today, due to ... Service employees terminated on February 14 included rangers, law enforcement officers, firefighters and other essential personnel....
ABC30
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National Park Service employees at Yosemite laid off amid government cuts - ABC30 Fresno
February 20, 2025 - I felt happy to go to work, excited to be a part of the park system and it's just kind of unfortunate in this situation," said another anonymous employee. The Trump administration has fired about 1,000 newly hired National Park Service employees ...
Outside Online
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The White House Is Planning More National Park Service Firings
October 20, 2025 - In February, the Trump Administration fired thousands of National Park Service employees—it targeted workers with so-called “probationary” status, which included workers who had recently been hired into new positions.
Reddit
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r/nationalparks on Reddit: 'Today, we celebrate': Judge says National Park Service must reinstate all fired employees
December 18, 2024 - A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered the National Park Service and five other federal agencies to immediately reinstate probationary employees who were fired en masse last month, ruling that the Office of Personnel Management had no ...
The Pennsylvania Independent
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‘Hell, absolute chaos’: PA National Park Service employees fired by Trump administration | The Pennsylvania Independent
March 12, 2025 - The mass firing of National Park employees, which reportedly includes staff at each of Pennsylvania’s 19 sites overseen by the National Park Service, comes at a time when the Trump administration has been purging thousands of people from federal positions across the country in agencies that include the Social Security Administration, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Department of Defense. Among those fired Feb.
SFGATE
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A rogue ranger is documenting every National Park Service firing
February 27, 2025 - When nearby trail crews are decimated, or the Forest Service doesn’t hire seasonal workers who sometimes chip in on fires, that can have a ripple effect on national parks nearby, even if their own staffing remains mostly intact. “It could result in more closures of the park during fire season,” Mow said. Thousands of Forest Service employees were also fired Feb.
Nevada Current
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More than a dozen NPS workers fired from Lake Mead as part of mass federal workforce purge • Nevada Current
April 2, 2025 - More than a dozen federal workers ... terminate all recent hires across federal agencies.Park rangers, engineers, ecologists, maintenance workers, and cultural resource staff were among at least 13 federal workers terminated from ...
Washington Times
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National Park Service restores some jobs of fired employees, pledges to hire 7,700 seasonal workers
February 22, 2025 - While the plan to hire more seasonal workers is welcome, “it will take a while to get to the number of seasonals hired to avoid some of the impacts we’ve talked about,” said Bill Wade, executive director of the Association of National Park Rangers and a former superintendent of Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park. Job offers to thousands of seasonal workers were rescinded in recent days, and not all of them will be rehired, Wade and other advocates said. Some permanent employees who were laid off were in human resources and would have been involved in hiring and training seasonal employees.
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park could lose key staff members amid federal firings
February 18, 2025 - However, the National Parks Conservation Association reports that 1,000 National Park Service employees were terminated. Those let go were notified via a “terse” email, according to National Parks Traveler.
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Trump’s Firing of 1,000 National Park Workers Raises Concerns About Maintenance and Operating Hours | Chicago News | WTTW
February 20, 2025 - WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has fired about 1,000 newly hired National Park Service employees who maintain and clean parks, educate visitors and perform other functions as part of its broad-based effort to downsize government.
Axios
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These national parks have been hit hardest by firings
March 5, 2025 - More than 750 U.S. national park workers have been fired amid the Trump administration's purge of federal employees, per an unofficial tally shared with Axios by a park ranger.
National Parks Traveler
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How The National Park Service Fired 1,000 Workers
July 14, 2025 - A terse email that went out to 1,000 National Park Service employees and other Interior Department staff who were fired this week was abrupt and claimed they were being fired for cause.
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Fired National Park Service employees make plans for class-action lawsuit
February 19, 2025 - SAN FRANCISCO - A group of employees who were terminated from the National Park Service last week are making plans to file class action lawsuits. The federal hiring freeze enacted via executive order by President Donald Trump is heavily impacting ...
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Fired Great Basin National Park rangers back to work, but fears linger | Great Basin National Park Foundation
March 27, 2025 - But last week, the park received an early gift. Five park employees laid off in February — about 20 percent of the park’s staff — were rehired after a federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s decision directing President Donald Trump’s administration to rehire terminated federal ...
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National parks advocates urge NPS to rehire fired workers - E&E News by POLITICO
March 5, 2025 - Two national organizations that support federal park rangers are urging the Trump administration to reinstate hundreds of probationary employees fired last month.
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Layoffs Have Hit the Beloved National Park Service. How Will It Affect Your Visit? | KQED
March 10, 2025 - Sarah Mohamad [00:04:14] So as of mid-February, Trump’s administration had fired over 1,000 National Park Service employees.
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Smith, Klobuchar Demand Answers from Secretary of the Interior Regarding Mass Firing of National Park Employees - Senator Tina Smith
February 21, 2025 - Senators alarmed by firing of Park ... expressing deep concern about his decision to abruptly fire more than 2,000 employees at the Department of the Interior (DOI)....