A popular hiking trail along the Snoqualmie River is closed indefinitely amid cuts to the U.S. Forest Service Agency. A recent social media post showed a sign at the entrance of the Franklin Falls Upper Trailhead stating that both the Franklin Falls and Denny Creek trailheads are indefinitely closed due to “large-scale termination of Forest Service employees.

Washington can boast of having 14 national parks, recreation areas and historic sites run by the National Park Service, the most prominent being Mount Rainier National Park, North Cascades National Park and Olympic National Park.

About half a dozen employees at each of Washington’s three national parks are believed to have been laid off as... Read Story

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.

Virginia’s 22 National Park Service sites serve 22 million visitors annually, contributing $1.5 billion to local economies across the Commonwealth ~ WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine and U.

Three National Park Service employees have been terminated at Colonial National Historical Park and six staffers have been cut from the Outer Banks Group.

Uncertainty over National Park Service staffing and services is leading to concern in communities that rely on visitors to fuel their economies.

One of them wondered: Is this related to what is happening in Washington and, in particular, what had happened the previous day around the country? On that Friday, the Trump administration fired about 1,000 National Park Service probationary employees.

Layoffs rippling through the federal government are affecting national parks and forests in Washington state, including at Mount Rainier National Park and popular trails east of Seattle. Why it matters: The staffing cuts — part of a nationwide reduction of 3,

The Trump administration is restoring jobs for dozens of fired National Park Service employees and hiring nearly 3,000 additional seasonal workers, following an uproar over an aggressive plan to downsize the agency.

Park rangers are crowdsourcing terminations and cataloging the number of National Park Service employees the Trump administration has fired across the country.