National Park Service employees at Yosemite laid off amid government cuts

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (KFSN) -- Employees astatine Yosemite National Park are expressing their disorder and concern.

"I conscionable got an email saying that I was terminated each of a sudden, and that's what happened to a clump of radical this week. It was beauteous shocking. We didn't spot it coming astatine all," an anonymous worker tells Action News.

That's the world for a fig of imperishable positions and seasonal employees who learned their occupation offers were rescinded oregon that jobs are nary longer available.

"I had been moving successful Yosemite National Park seasonally since 2019, and I was moving for Aramark, the concessionaire, and I yet made the leap implicit past twelvemonth to National Park Service and it conscionable felt like, I yet felt fulfilled doing. I felt blessed to spell to work, excited to beryllium a portion of the parkland strategy and it's conscionable benignant of unfortunate successful this situation," said different anonymous employee.

The Trump medication has fired astir 1,000 recently hired National Park Service employees whose roles see cleaning and maintaining parks, and educating visitors.

It's portion of the President's committedness to chopped costs and analyse authorities efficiency.

Ken Yager has lived successful Mariposa County for astir 50 years and worries astir the semipermanent interaction of the eliminated jobs.

"These radical don't person anyplace to unrecorded close now, they person nary income. Some of these people, it's questionable if they are adjacent going to get unemployment to clasp them implicit until they tin find different occupation and find housing," said President of Yosemite Climbing Association, Ken Yager.

People are besides disquieted that a deficiency of staffing to grip millions of tourists successful Yosemite each twelvemonth could person harmful effects connected wildlife.

"I'm befuddled, but I'm besides truly aggravated due to the fact that erstwhile a carnivore dies due to the fact that we don't person capable radical to negociate the trash. Once a carnivore is deed by a car due to the fact that of overcrowding," said Regional Executive Director for the National Wildlife Federation, Beth Pratt.

Pratt says she believes protecting the sights and sounds of earthy wonders similar Yosemite should beryllium bipartisan.

"Why are we messing with 1 happening that astir of america hold connected successful a clip erstwhile we hold connected little, that our parks are peculiar and should not beryllium enactment astatine risk," said Pratt.

ABC News has contacted the Department of Interior and the National Park Service but has not received a remark connected this issue.

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