After a loud public outrage about job cuts in National Park Services – and a tireless media campaign from outside enthusiasts across the country – it seems that the Trump administration has reconsidered.
The plan to eliminate thousands of seasonal workers in the beloved federal agency has been reversed.
Last month, future seasonal staff – people who collect entry fees clean the trails and toilets and help save the injured hikers – he said that their job proposals for 2025 seasons were canceled. .
This week, a memorandum sent from the Interior Department to the Park Service officials said that the agency can hire 7,700 seasonal employees this year, with about 6,300 which have been hired in recent years.
If it is fully implemented, it would be a notable exception to the government-wide hiring freeze when the Trump administration is closed on the federal bureaucracy, threatening to eliminate the entire agencies, almost all federal workers “resigned” Offers and firing thousands. Career employees.
Repruses for parks “is definitely a win”, Kristeon Brangel said, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs for non -profit National Park Protection Asan.
Brangel said that it is a will for “advocates, park Rangers and all other people who are shouting from the climber that we need to restore these positions.”
The memorandum addressed only temporary seasonal employees. It did not say anything about about 1,000 members of the permanent workforce of the National Park Service, who were fired on Friday. He was included in the multi -level perj of thousands of probationary federal employees under the administration, most people in the first few years of their career, who have less job protection than more experienced employees. Probable employees represent approximately 5% of full -time employees in the park service.
“We need to restore all posts for park service and push until it is exempted from the park service in general,” Brangel said.
Park service officials did not respond to the remarks request.
After firing on Friday, in which some dubbed “Valentine’s Day Massacre”, the park staff and external enthusiasts took on social media, called their Congress representatives and buttoning anyone, who was a coordinated campaign I hear that it is a matter of the federal government to restore jobs. The most popular agency.
The US National Parks – including Yosemite, Joshua Tree and Grand Canyon – attracted more than 320 million visitors in 2023, and have been settings for countless family holidays for generations of Americans.
After he was evacuated on 14 February, Yosemite maintenance activist Olek Chamura went to ask on Instagram whether he and his minor paid colleagues actually Trump and his appointed efficiency expert, Elon Musk made such a useless expense There were an example, claiming that they are trying to finish.
“I make more than just $ 40,000 per year; Scrap S- out of the toilet with a putty knife almost every day, ”Chamura wrote. “Somehow, I am the goal.”
Like so many social media Cris Day Koir, Chamura felt that he would get a thumb from some sympathetic friends and then be lost in the huge sea of online Angest.
He was wrong.
Earlier this week, he became an unexpected poster child and was realized from both sides of the spokes, actually a spokes, for the resentment felt by millions.
He was suddenly looking at the interview requests, which was heard of every media organization, and some probably did not do so. Fox, NBC, local newspapers, even Skynevas from Britain. In the background, L Capiton’s growing rock face became a photogenic patches of the Yosemite Valley, his individual TV studio.
Arrived on Wednesday afternoon, he said that he had already done many interviews that day. “I am unemployed,” he jokingly said, “and this, like, is the busiest day of my life.”
Originally Cleveland, Shine, 28, held the rock-climbing bug and created a pilgrimage for classic crags across the US, which saves the best for the final: Yosemite.
“This is where I want to live, you know. This is the place where I want to be old, and it is like that I will spend the rest of my life.
Like so many self-drank “dirt bag” climbers in Yosemite, he spent a few years to do strange work to meet before the park service. This meant that scrapping the toilet, lifting the diapers used and “squeeze-ur urine” from the bathroom floor, he said. But it was still a holy grave of jobs for a passionate climber.
“It was quite literally, a dream came true,” said Chamura.
Therefore, when the Trump administration arrived against the federal workforce with his slash-end-burn crusade, he was shocked and was swept away in it.
He said, “I really do not understand why they are attacking the working class Americans, who never took these jobs to be rich.” “It is just very misleading. Why do we? “
Ohio’s orthodox friend, who has seen him on Instagram and TV, has reached out and said, “It’s not what I have voted, this … is crazy,” Chamura said.
Because he was a probationary full -time employee, the leather job is not among those who are being restored. But he hopes that pressure from the public, and pressure from elected representatives, can also turn the tide in his favor.
Meanwhile, for park supervisors, uncertainty continues. Two who asked for oblivion as they are afraid of vengeance that they have been allowed to resume seasonal employees. He said that they are trying to work fast, because no one knows that the guidance from the administration can suddenly change again.
Tim Whitehouse, executive director of environmental responsibility for non -profit public employees, said, “Federal agencies and especially the parks have the worst task in the US.” “They are working with unprecedented levels of chaos.”
