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Ex-ranger on how Trump’s mass government firings are affecting the National Park Service
The National Park Service is grappling with massive layoffs. What you should know.
Fired US Forest Service and National Park Service workers say cuts will be felt on fire lines
National Park Service withdraws Black community in Louisiana from historic landmark consideration
A Louisiana landscape of centuries-old sugar cane plantations and enduring Afro-Creole culture along the Mississippi River had been eligible for receiving rare federal protection following a multi-year review by the National Park Service.
National Park Service restores some jobs of fired employees, pledges to hire 7,700 seasonal workers
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 to downsize the agency.
Chicago's Pullman Historic District marks 10 years as part of National Park Service
Its history not only preserved through its architecture and its role in the labor movement, but by two brothers who worked and continue to live in the onetime industrial town.
National Park Service tries to erase trans people from the Stonewall Riots
The National Parks Service removed all references to transgender people on its website about the Stonewall Inn National Monument this week.
Trump administration restores dozens of jobs for National Park Service workers
At least 50 jobs are being restored to help maintain and clean parks, educate visitors and collect admission fees.
Federal Layoffs Strike Nevada: Great Basin National Park Rangers among the cuts
Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has a warning for workers across America: If Elon Musk can fire hundreds of thousands of federal employees without cause, private sector workers could be next. Billionaire Power and Its Consequences In a recent post on X,
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A Black community in Louisiana was eligible for historic landmark designation. The National Park Service withdrew it from consideration
The agency withdrew the 11-mile stretch of land known as Great River Road from consideration for National Historic Landmark designation at the request of state officials, who celebrated the move as a win for economic development.
Hundreds in Park Service Have Opted to Quit, Agency Memo Says
The news of the resignations comes after a decision earlier this month at the Department of Interior to fire more than 1,000 full-time national park employees. According to the new memo sent on Tuesday and viewed by The New York Times, the additional 700 workers who agreed to the resignation plan would not be permitted to work after March 7.
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Meet the ‘Wooly Devil,’ the First New Plant Genus Discovered in a National Park Since 1976
A volunteer spotted the tiny, fuzzy plant with maroon florets while exploring the remote northern corner of Big Bend National Park in Texas
Search underway at national park for man last seen nearly 2 weeks ago
The Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park in Colorado is one of the last known locations where 31-year-old Jordan Marsters was seen, the National Park Service said.
Meet the 'Wooly Devil,' the new plant species discovered at Big Bend National Park
A new fuzzy plant species called the "Wooly Devil" has been discovered amongst the arid landscapes of Big Bend National Park in Texas.