Washington (AP) -The Trump government restores the jobs for dozens of National Park Service employees who are released in state reduction and almost 3,000 additional seasonal workers are hired after turmoil due to an aggressive plan for reducing the agency.
At least 50 jobs are restored to maintain and neat parks, clarify visitors and collect admission fees, two people who are familiar with the agency’s plans who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not justified, publicly about to speak the matter.
The movements come, as the Park Service announced in a fresh memo that it will hire up to 7,700 seasonal positions this year, compared to around 5,000 that were promised at the beginning of this week, and higher than the three -year average of 6,350 seasonal workers. The Park Service has around 20,000 employees.
Legislators and interest groups have criticized the widespread layoffs as unnecessary and as a threat to public security and the parks themselves. Colorados National Monument Fossil Beds, which is located west of Colorado Springs and receives around 70,000 visitors a year, announced on social media that she will close two days a week due to “lack of personnel” on Monday.
“These roles are crucial for the protection of America’s esteemed natural assets, the maintenance of public security and the promotion of exceptional standards,” says a letter that the two democratic senators and six members of the Democratic House in Virginia signed.
“If these guidelines are not the other way around, we fear that this will significantly undermine the ability of the park service to protect both visitors and parking resources, especially if we approach the top visit season,” they wrote to Interior Minister Doug Burgum.
The concern about the layoffs was non -partisan. Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, said that she was concerned that the Acadia National Park “the seasonal employees who are necessary to collect admission fees and to perform other essential tasks, not in the maintenance of ways and the provision of Can hire first aid services for visitors ”.
Seasonal workers are routinely added in the months with toasty weather to serve more than 325 million visitors who rise annually to the 433 parks, historical sites and other attractions in the country. Parking lawyers say that the constant personnel cuts are hundreds of national parks in some of the best known and most visited locations and complex decisions about operating times, public security and resource protection.
A spokesman for the interior department rejected a comment on Friday. Nobody in the Park Service answered an e -mail from the Associated Press.
During the plan to hire more seasonal workers Rangers and former superintendent of the Shenandoah national park from Virginia.
Job offers for thousands of seasonal workers have been lifted in the past few days, and not all of them are restored, calf and other lawyers said. Some constant employees who were released were in the human resources and would be involved in the hiring and training of seasonal employees.
“I celebrate because they are committed at some point, but I am suspicious to say that everything has been repaired” agency for postponed resignations offered by the Trump administration.
“There is no real personnel plan. It is chaotic and there is no leadership of the Interior Minister,” said Tim Whitehouse, Managing Director of the group audience for environmental responsibility.
Burgum “must be triggered in spring and summer,” said Whitehouse. According to Park Advocates, the problems in parks that are popular in spring are probably in spring and spring. B. Zion National Park in Utah.
“National parks are something that all Americans appreciate, and the people who make the decisions are separated from this reality,” said Whitehouse and referred to the billionaire Elon Musk and a team of helpers who are trying to do thousands of federal workers dismissed.
President Donald Trump has not nominated a parking director, a position that requires confirmation of the Senate. Jessica Bowron, the agency’s compatroller, has been appointed acting director.
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