A popular hiking trail along the Snoqualmie River is closed indefinitely amid cuts to the U.S. Forest Service Agency. A recent social media post showed a sign at the entrance of the Franklin Falls Upper Trailhead stating that both the Franklin Falls and Denny Creek trailheads are indefinitely closed due to “large-scale termination of Forest Service employees.

Washington can boast of having 14 national parks, recreation areas and historic sites run by the National Park Service, the most prominent being Mount Rainier National Park, North Cascades National Park and Olympic National Park.

About half a dozen employees at each of Washington’s three national parks are believed to have been laid off as... Read Story

About half a dozen employees at each of Washington’s three national parks are believed to have been laid off as part of the Trump administration’s government-wide push to slash staff.

Virginia’s 22 National Park Service sites serve 22 million visitors annually, contributing $1.5 billion to local economies across the Commonwealth ~ WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine and U.

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

Uncertainty over National Park Service staffing and services is leading to concern in communities that rely on visitors to fuel their economies.

One of them wondered: Is this related to what is happening in Washington and, in particular, what had happened the previous day around the country? On that Friday, the Trump administration fired about 1,000 National Park Service probationary employees.

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.

The employee confirms several staffers were terminated, and the park could be down dozens of workers for peak visitor season.

MOUNT RAINIER, Wash. — When Hanford McCloud looks at the towering volcano that is the namesake of Mount Rainier National Park, he thinks about the generations of his ancestors that came before them. Called Tahoma by the indigenous tribes in Western Washington, McCloud says the mountain is the “beacon” of what lives in its shadows.