Tracking The Park Service Firings, Which Are About To Get Worse

How many employees are being lost at each national park? An NPS employee is tracking everything

On February 14, as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to slash the federal workforce, 1,000 full-time National Park Service employees were fired. Because there’s no real organization or planning behind these terminations—given that they’ll cost taxpayers exponentially more money than the sum of the effected salaries, the purpose appears to be nothing more than spite—it’s been hard to determine which park units have been impacted and how badly. That’s why an anonymous seasonal NPS employee has begun tracking the lost positions.

“It’s a form of transparency,” explains that anonymous employee, about why they undertook the project. “Not only for the public, but also for every park themselves to be aware how they were not alone and understand what parks were hit the hardest.”

This is the same list that was first reported on—but not shared in…