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The white house fired 1,000 employees from NPS this week (but is allowing 5k seasonal hires). What positions were actually terminated?
r/NationalPark • 215 • February 15, 2025
The white house fired 1,000 employees from NPS this week (but is allowing 5k seasonal hires). What positions were actually terminated?
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• February 15, 2025I'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
Trump 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.
r/nationalparks • 76 • February 21, 2025
Trump 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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• February 21, 2025We'll see how long this lasts. They've fired folks, said they could come back and fired them again ... and he's been in office a month. More on reddit.com
'Today, we celebrate': Judge says National Park Service must reinstate all fired employees
r/nationalparks • 424 • March 13, 2025
'Today, we celebrate': Judge says National Park Service must reinstate all fired employees
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• March 13, 2025Best f’ing news I’ve heard all month. And I’m not exaggerating. More on reddit.com
Trump administration backtracks eliminating thousands of national parks employees
r/NationalPark • 445 • February 21, 2025
Trump administration backtracks eliminating thousands of national parks employees
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• February 21, 2025If you read the article it's just about the seasonal workers. The full-time staff still lost their jobs. More on reddit.com
Washington Post
Crater Lake National Park superintendent resigns as staffing plunges - The Washington Post
1 day ago - Burgum testified before the Senate ... 18,066 employees, according to the internal Interior data. That marks a nearly 16.5 percent drop in Park Service staff since fiscal 2023, the latest year for which data is available. The decrease includes staff who took buyout offers, deferred resignations ...
SFGATE
A rogue ranger is documenting every National Park Service firing
February 27, 2025 - The spreadsheet also doesn’t ... and numbers reported by other outlets. The Associated Press, for example, reported that 16 people were fired from Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming....
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These national parks have been hit hardest by firings
March 5, 2025 - By the numbers: Florida's Everglades National Park (15 workers fired), Virginia's Shenandoah National Park (15) and New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns National Park (14) are among the hardest hit locations across the U.S. National Park Service (NPS), per the tally.
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Trump's firing of 1,000 national park workers raises concerns about maintenance and operating hours
February 19, 2025 - (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ... 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.
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‘Hell, absolute chaos’: PA National Park Service employees fired by Trump administration | The Pennsylvania Independent
March 12, 2025 - The Trump administration fired Pryor from her job at Valley Forge on Feb. 14, 2025. (Photo provided) Less than one month ago, Jessica Fair was working at her dream job as the historical architect at Valley Forge National Historical Park and Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site. Now, Fair is unemployed and unsure what’s in store for her. · Fair was one of about 1,000 National Park Service employees ...
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National Park Service To Be Hit With 1,500 Additional Layoffs And Deep Budget Cuts, Reports Say
1 month ago - Roughly 1,500 National Park Service staffers are expected to be fired as Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency reportedly plans to slash $26 million in grant funding to the agency ahead of the busy summer season.
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The white house fired 1,000 employees from NPS this week (but is allowing 5k seasonal hires). What positions were actually terminated? : r/NationalPark
February 15, 2025 - For all those who love National Parks! ... Sorry, this post was deleted by the person who originally posted it. Share ... A wildland firefighter and admin employee were fired from our unit. It was anybody really, didn’t matter. You were a vet hire? Well thank you for your service, don’t ...
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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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National Park Service restores some jobs of fired employees, pledges to hire 7,700 seasonal workers | AP News
February 22, 2025 - The Trump administration is restoring jobs for dozens of fired National Park Service employees and hiring nearly 3,000 additional seasonal workers, following an uproar over an aggressive plan to downsize the agency.
Npca
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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National Park Service Awaiting "Further Instructions" Before Reinstating Fired Employees
March 19, 2025 - The National Park Service, which has been ordered to reinstate roughly 1,000 probationary employees fired in February, told park superintendents Wednesday morning to wait until they receive further instructions from Washington headquarters before contacting those workers.
SFGATE
National Park Service asks workers to help with their own layoffs
April 29, 2025 - A leaked draft document from the ... of six national monuments. In mid-April, Burgum signed over control of the agency to a so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) operative. ... In March, staff were told not to publicize record-breaking visitor numbers from 2024; the closure of 33 park service facilities was announced, and a spending freeze limited employees’ credit cards to a $1 spending limit. In February, more than 1,000 employees were fired in what’s ...
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park could lose key staff members amid federal firings
February 18, 2025 - A spokesperson for the park declined ... 1,000 National Park Service staffers were cut. across the country · More than 10,000 federal workers were terminated Feb. 13 and 14 as the Trump administration escalates its efforts to downsize the federal workforce. The cuts targeted federal employees across all departments with “probationary status” because they have been hired in the past year. Probationary workers are easier to fire because they ...
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1,000 National Park Service Workers Fired - YouTube
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About 1,000 National Park Service employees have been fired in the latest round of cuts by the Trump administration. The people fired were in their probation...
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Yosemite National Park employees who recently were fired ...
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Fired Rocky Mountain National Park employee speaks out about potential impacts of job losses
February 22, 2025 - At least a dozen full-time workers at Rocky Mountain National Park were abruptly fired last week after the Trump Administration ordered the termination of federal probationary employees nationwide.
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This Group Is Charting the National Park Firings, One Job at a Time
March 4, 2025 - After all, the busy spring and ... America’s parklands and campgrounds for their vacations. Most NPS site have yet to publish details on which jobs have been lost amid the culling, and the NPS’s national office has not distributed a list of fired employees....