The buyouts and the Feb. 14 firing of probationary employees has cost the National Park Service at least 1,700 permanent staff members this month, roughly 9% of its workforce.

Federal agencies that were already strapped for resources, such as the National Parks Service and U.S. Forestry Service, will now be struggling to find workers to perform critical functions for ...

Credit: Chase Sutton A flurry of federal employee layoffs by the Trump administration have put national parks and wildlife refuges — including ... “nonexistent” federal employees. Amongst the agencies ...