Our friends at Center for Western Priorities had this in their Look West newsletter this morning…
One month after rescinding job offers for thousands of seasonal employees, the National Park Service appears to have partially reversed course. The Los Angeles Times reports that a memo sent from the Interior department to Park Service officials approved the hiring of 7,700 seasonal employees this year, an increase from the 6,300 seasonal employees in recent years.
But the extra seasonal hires still wouldn’t offset the loss of roughly 1,000 full-time park service employees who were fired last Friday in Elon Musk’s purge of “probationary” government employees.
If I calculate correctly, that’s a 22% increase in seasonals..? Also I don’t see that as a “partial reversal”, it sounds like a “complete reversal plus adding more seasonal employees.”
It also says:
There’s also no indication that the White House intends to change course on national forest lands, where 3,400 workers were fired last week.
So what’s going on with FS and BLM seasonals? Are they back to being hired on, and are the numbers greater than last year?