In an act of resistance, park rangers are banding together to crowdsource terminations and catalog the number of National Park Service employees the Trump administration has fired in every park unit across the country.

A Louisiana landscape of centuries-old sugar cane plantations and enduring Afro-Creole culture along the Mississippi River had been eligible for receiving rare federal protection following a multi-year review by the National Park Service.

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.

Baker is a tiny town in Nevada with a population of 41. It’s the last stop on America’s loneliest road, before entering Utah, and the gateway to Great Basin National Park, Nevada’s only national park.

Its history not only preserved through its architecture and its role in the labor movement, but by two brothers who worked and continue to live in the onetime industrial town.

Months after Hurricane Helene hit western North Carolina, the Blue Ridge Parkway is still on a long road to recovery. Ice storms earlier this season forced crews to halt debris removal efforts along the roadway temporarily.

The Trump administration’s DOGE program has fired hundreds of park rangers across the United States, and that painful process has also affected staffers at the San Antonio Missions National Park. Ranger Sanya Marin said the item in her inbox on Valentine’s Day this month turned her world upside down.

The National Park Service is now hiring seasonal workers to fill positions at parks across the country. But experts say the push to start hiring may be too late as the popular spring season gets underway.

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The agency withdrew the 11-mile stretch of land known as Great River Road from consideration for National Historic Landmark designation at the request of state officials, who celebrated the move as a win for economic development.

Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park staff and the Montrose County Sheriff’s Office staff are seeking the public’s help in locating a missing person.