US EditionFrom research to restrooms: Summer staffing crunch hits national parks after Trump cuts
- Yosemite National Park faces a staffing crisis this season amid nationwide shortages affecting U.S. National parks.
- The crisis stems from years of budget constraints, federal workforce cuts, and recruitment challenges reported since 2010.
- Staff shortages forced employees, including scientists, to perform maintenance tasks while visitor numbers rose to record highs last year.
- The National Park Service lost 13% of its workforce since January 2017 and only 3,300 of 7,700 promised seasonal rangers were hired by mid-May.
- These trends indicate continuing operational strains despite assurances that parks will remain in good condition for visitors this summer.
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Summer staffing crunch hits national parks after Trump cuts | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
At Yosemite National Park in California, one of the oldest and most popular U.S. natural preserves, the workforce is stretched so thin this season that nearly all staffers, even scientists, are required to take turns cleaning campground toilets, according to two people familiar with conditions there.
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