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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.”
Axios
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.
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'Today, we celebrate': Judge says National Park Service must reinstate all fired employees
r/nationalparks • 418 • 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 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 • August 1, 2024
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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• August 1, 2024We'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
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 • August 9, 2024
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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• August 9, 2024I'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
Rocky Mountain National Park employees fired illegally
r/RMNP • 102 • October 15, 2024
Rocky Mountain National Park employees fired illegally
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• October 15, 2024Rocky 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
Spokesman-Review
National Park Service employee who cleaned up oil wells fired
2 weeks ago - Until recently, Forrest Smith was the sole employee at the National Park Service responsible for cleaning up dozens of abandoned oil and gas wells at national parks across the country.
The Pennsylvania Independent
‘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
National Park Service asks workers to help with their own layoffs
April 29, 2025 - In March, staff were told not to ... limited employees’ credit cards to a $1 spending limit. In February, more than 1,000 employees were fired in what’s being called the “Valentine’s Day Massacre.”...
Reddit
r/nationalparks on Reddit: 'Today, we celebrate': Judge says National Park Service must reinstate all fired employees
March 13, 2025 - 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 ...
National Parks Conservation Association
Parks Group Welcomes Reinstatement of Probationary Park Staff but Warns of Ongoing National Park Staffing Crisis · National Parks Conservation Association
Statement by Theresa Pierno, President and CEO for the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA): “The administration’s reckless and indefensible decision to fire 1,000 park staff has put our parks and millions of visitors and resources ...
Newsweek
National Park Employees Face Mass Layoffs—Here's How It Will Impact Your Vacation - Newsweek
February 19, 2025 - Newsweek reached out to the NPS via email for comment on Wednesday. Trump and his administration have fired roughly 1,000 newly hired NPS employees, according to the Associated Press.
KTVU
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 ...
National Parks Conservation Association
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.
Greatbasinfoundation
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 ...
National Parks Traveler
Interior Department Rehiring National Park Service Employees, Though Some Likely To Be Fired Again
March 20, 2025 - The National Park Service is taking steps to honor a federal judge's order to rehire roughly 1,000 employees fired on Valentine's Day, but observers say it appears the agency will likely terminate some of those in the end just the same.
KQED
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.
Senator Tina Smith
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)....
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U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service employees fired by DOGE speak out - YouTube
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Fired employees of the U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service told ABC News that the decision to lay off thousands of employees will have catastrophic...
Published: February 20, 2025
Axios
These California national parks have been hit hardest by federal firings - Axios San Diego
March 5, 2025 - At least 84 U.S. National Park Service workers in California have been fired amid the Trump administration's purge of federal workers, per an unofficial tally shared with Axios. Why it matters: The firings have left parks short-staffed ahead ...
ColoradoBiz
National park service reinstates jobs, hires 7,700 seasonals
February 24, 2025 - WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is restoring jobs for dozens of National Park Service employees fired amid government-wide reductions and hiring nearly 3,000 additional seasonal workers, following an uproar over an aggressive plan ...
Breeze TV
US National Park workers reckon with fear, anger after layoffs | News | breezejmu.org
February 21, 2025 - About 3,400 employees of the US Forest Service were among the cuts too, according to multiple US media reports. Olson, 27, had worked at Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest since last June, performing tasks such as maintaining hiking trails, clearing vegetation and other debris from paths and collecting data on visitors. On Saturday, she received an email saying she was fired with immediate effect, alleging poor performance.
Protectnps
NPT: One-Thousand National Park Service Staff Fired, Seasonal Hiring Resuming – The Coalition To Protect America's National Parks
February 14, 2025 - One-thousand National Park Service staff were being fired Friday as part of the Trump administration’s move to reduce the size of federal government, though the agency was told it could begin hiring 5,000 seasonal workers, according to the National Parks Conservation Association.