National Park Service firings hit Mount Rainier, Olympic, North Cascades
About half a dozen employees at each of Washington’s three national parks are believed to have been laid off as part of the Trump administration’s government-wide push to slash staff.
Mount Rainier and North Cascades national parks each saw six employees let go last week, while Olympic National Park lost five, said Bill Wade, the executive director of the Association of National Park Rangers.
It’s been difficult for anyone to figure out the extent of layoffs at Washington’s parks. Even the park superintendents have been kept mostly in the dark. Wade got information from “reliable sources, such as other employees in the parks, or from one who is terminated and knows how many others in the park were terminated.”
The cuts at Mount Rainier included the popular park’s only plumber, Wade said Thursday.
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