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

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

High Desert area residents and climbers hang an American flag upside down in a symbol of distress and protest against federal employee firings at the National Park Service and other agencies at Intersection Rock in Joshua Tree National Park, Calif., on Feb. 28, 2025.

After approximately 1,000 firings, followed by a promise to increase seasonal workers, here's where the NPS stands.

The Alt National Park Service was established in 2017, after the real National Park Service was temporarily barred from using social media.

However, the National Park Service topped the list of government agencies seen favorably by U.S. adults, according to a Pew Research study last July, and national parks are widely considered to be among America’s greatest treasures .

More than 700 National Park Service staff are quitting to take up the Trump administration's offer to resign now but be paid possibly through September, according to an agency memo.

Local advocates with the National Parks Conservation Association say despite seasonal hiring given the green light after layoffs, impacts will still be seen at parks.

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.

More than 325 million people visited America’s national parks in 2023, according to the latest Park Service statistics. The volume of visitors has grown each year since the pandemic, and many ...