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'A real chill': National park discovery rewrites human history
Gypsum dune fields at White Sands National Monument within the Chihuahuan Desert and the Tularosa Basin near Alamogordo, New ...
California cattle ranchers sue National Park Service to stay on the land
We felt that we were the last voice to take a position with the park to represent agriculture, pastoral agriculture, food production." ...
Los Angeles Times22d
1,000 park workers who were fired in DOGE cuts are reinstated
As a result of recent court orders, about 1,000 previously fired employees from the National Park Service will get their jobs back. That includes about eight workers from the Santa Monica ...
advnture23d
Nationwide national park protests planned as Trump administration makes ‘no moves’ to put fired staff back to work
Nationwide protests in support of sacked National Park Service workers will take place this weekend after the Trump administration appealed against judicial orders to give them back their jobs. The ...
Seattle Times24d
The staff is the heart of our national parks. Don’t decimate it
The National Park Service, which stewards 433 national park units covering some 85 million acres in each of the 50 states and five trust territories, is one of our most highly regarded federal ...
SFGate24d
Trump administration ignores courts, continues dismantling National Park Service workforce
The Trump administration isn’t done trying to reduce the size and capacity of the National Park Service, which oversees the care of 433 parks, historic sites, monuments and recreation areas.
National Parks Traveler24d
National Park Service Awaiting "Further Instructions" Before Reinstating Fired Employees
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 ...
The Intercept26d
Trump Fired Park Rangers — But Not the Ones Who Tend to the White House
As the Trump administration fired hundreds of probationary Park Service employees in February, it spared a special subset from the purge — it exempted from the mass firings National Park Service ...
Oregonian28d
Former National Park Service leaders warn of extended impacts from DOGE cuts
If Dan Wenk had been fired during his first year in a permanent job with the National Park Service, the agency would’ve lost his many later accomplishments. He would not have gone on to help ...
The Evening Sun28d
Gettysburg 100 Nights of Taps event relocated due to loss of park service sponsorship
The National Park Service has not yet provided further clarification on the circumstances surrounding the relocation. After nine years, the National Park Service told organizers that "due to ...
ProPublica29d
Curious How Trump’s Cost Cutting Could Affect Your National Park Visit? You Might Not Get a Straight Answer.
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. If you ask a National Park Service ranger how the Trump ...
San Antonio Express-News29d
Judge orders fired employees of national parks be rehired. But will they return?
A federal judge ordered the National Park Service (NPS), among other agencies, to reinstate probationary employees fired in February, saying the terminations were illegal. The Association of ...