DOGE cuts National Park staff

Opinion
National parks cuts threaten America the beautiful
Trump administration cutbacks at parks and the Forest Service affect all Americans.
DOGE cuts National Park staff as visitation rate peaks
The National Park Service had 331.9 million recreation visits to its various sites in 2024 but faces cuts to its workforce.
Opinion
America’s best idea? National parks. Its worst? DOGE
If you visit any one of those priceless parks in the coming months and discover understaffed facilities, garbage piling up, programs cancelled and hours curtailed, you can thank Elon Musk, President Donald Trump’s hatchet man, who is hacking away at federal agencies with a chainsaw instead of a scalpel.
National parks: Feeling the pain of staff cuts
Chaos is spreading across our national parks, said Maxine Joselow and Andrea Sachs in The Washington Post. The Trump administration fired about 1,000 National Park Service employees in February, and the agency’s 433 national parks, historic sites, and attractions are already feeling the pain.
US national park staff cuts put nature and visitors at risk
By Bobby Bascomb The Trump administration, as part of its downsizing of the federal government, fired roughly 1,000 National Park Service (NPS) employees, who manage protected areas in the U.S. With more terminations on the horizon,
DOGE Cuts Threaten Summer Fun (and Cleanliness) at U.S. National Parks
The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has been axing federal workers by the thousands and some of those hardest hit are national parks and forest service workers. This means that if you get a chance to visit one of America’s beautiful parks,
National parks had a record year. Trump officials appear to want it kept quiet
The Trump administration fired about 1,000 park service employees in February as part of a plan by President Donald Trump and ...
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Which D.C.-area national parks lost the most workers
More than 750 national park workers have been fired amid the Trump administration's purge of federal employees, per an ...
Trump property purge to include national park visitor centers, museums
The Trump administration is trying to cancel leases for 34 National Park Service buildings, which an advocate says will ...
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UPDATE | National Park Service Has Leadership Vacuum
Roughly a third of the National Park Service's senior leadership positions are vacant, and the Interior Department reportedly ...
Chuck Sams reflects on the past, present and future of national parks
In two lengthy interviews with Underscore at his Pendleton home, the first Native American parks director in U.S. history ...
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Parks Group Condemns Erasure of LGBTQ+ History from Park Service Website
The federal government is undermining National Park Service efforts to maintain an accurate and objective accounting of our ...
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National Parks Service to hire seasonal employees after all. What it means for Washington
After some speculation following the federal hiring freeze imposed by President Donald Trump, the National Park Service announced it will hire seasonal workers to staff its 63 parks this summer.