At least 52 of the 1,000 National Park Service employees abruptly fired by the Trump administration last month worked in Colorado, according to an unofficial tally crowdsourced by park rangers throughout the country.
That includes twelve employees terminated from Rocky Mountain National Park, among the most losses for any national park recorded in the tally. The hardest hit national parks were Everglades in Florida (fifteen fired), Shenandoah in Virginia (fifteen), Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico (fourteen) and Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina and Tennessee (twelve).
Colorado’s other three national parks experienced fewer cuts. Based on the rangers’ count, Black Canyon of the Gunnison lost nine employees, while the Great Sand Dunes and Mesa Verde both lost two.
Another 21 workers were reportedly fired from the park service’s Lakewood-based offices; eleven from the Intermountain Regional Office, nine from the Denver Service Center and one from the Geologic Resources Division. T...
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