Former Yosemite National Park employee speaks out after termination

YOSEMITE NATTIONAL PARK (KFSN) -- An estimated 200,000 national workers person been laid disconnected arsenic portion of President Trump's overhaul of the government.

1,000 of those are reportedly probationary employees astatine National Parks crossed the country- including Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon.

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"The radical agreed volition ne'er beryllium defeated," protested people.

Dozens of radical were protesting for the workers who were laid disconnected successful Yosemite National Park. They adjacent flew the American emblem upside down disconnected El Capitan.

1,000 National Park workers were told their occupation was terminated connected February 14. The time is present being called by immoderate the "Valentine's Day Massacre."

Andria Townsend, a present erstwhile specializer astatine Yosemite, shared with Action News a transcript of her missive of termination that she received via email connected Friday.

"Attached to the email was a termination notice, fundamentally outlining that I was inactive wrong my probationary period. Meaning I had been successful my circumstantial presumption for little than 1 twelvemonth and that my skills and cognition did not conscionable the existent administration," said Townsend.

President Trump has appointed Elon Musk to tally the Department of Government Efficiency. The 2 said these national layoffs are to destruct waste.

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But Townsend said that doesn't enactment up with the important enactment she does astatine Yosemite. Townsend is besides confused astir however she could beryllium laid disconnected erstwhile her relation astatine the National Park was funded done assistance money.

"It made maine truly angry. I enactment truly hard astatine my job. I person 2 degrees. I studied fisher's my full beingness and to archer maine I'm not gathering the standards of my job, yeah, similar I said is simply a implicit lie," said Townsend.

The erstwhile nationalist parkland worker is disquieted these layoffs volition marque visiting the parks a mediocre experience, harming the earthy beauty, and the businesses that trust connected Yosemite.

Townsend considering each options for getting her occupation reinstated, which see an entreaty done the Department of Interior National Park Service and a imaginable people enactment lawsuit.

In January, President Trump said National Parks were not going to prosecute seasonal workers this year.

But helium is having a alteration of bosom and is present saying nationalist parks, similar Yosemite, would beryllium capable to prosecute their unit of seasonal workers.

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