{"id":9639,"date":"2025-03-01T10:26:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T10:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/beneath-yosemites-beauty-anger-and-anxiety-over-trumps-job-cuts\/"},"modified":"2025-03-01T10:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T10:26:23","slug":"beneath-yosemites-beauty-anger-and-anxiety-over-trumps-job-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/beneath-yosemites-beauty-anger-and-anxiety-over-trumps-job-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Beneath Yosemite\u2019s Beauty, Anger and Anxiety Over Trump\u2019s Job Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some might call Elliot Lozano, a 37-year-old biological science technician and weasel specialist, a prime example of why the Trump administration chose to cut 1,000 jobs from the National Park Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Others might call him a symbol of the Park Service\u2019s purpose, and a reason employees at Yosemite unfurled an upside-down American flag across the granite face of the landmark monolith El Capitan last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Lozano, who worked at Yosemite National Park, was awarded a $5,000 bonus last year for extraordinary efforts to save one endangered weasel \u2014 a baby southern Sierra Nevada fisher found orphaned in the park by his team. He was among roughly 10 Yosemite workers who were told by email on Feb. 14 that they would be fired because their \u201csubject matter knowledge, skills and abilities\u201d were unnecessary. At least 30 other vacancies sit unfilled because of a hiring freeze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt does feel like I\u2019m spending my life force trying to solve an important problem,\u201d Mr. Lozano said, still speaking in present tense about his former job.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Lately, there have been few visible signs of the job cuts at Yosemite, a Rhode Island-size national park founded 134 years ago in central California\u2019s Sierra Nevada Mountains that Ansel Adams once called \u201ca glitter of green and golden wonder.\u201d The upside-down flag was taken down. The peak tourist season in the summer is many months away. Climbers are still gathering in the meadows in the thin morning light, peering through binoculars at the specks of their friends up on the big wall as the sun hits the face of El Capitan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the Trump administration\u2019s radical reshaping of American government has been playing out in this wonderland of wilderness and waterfalls, too. It just does so beneath the surface, where the tensions between cost-cutting and maintaining a piece of America\u2019s majestic heritage have been building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Fired federal workers say they are planning to join protests on Saturday at national parks across the country for a \u201cNationwide Day of Action.\u201d Officials at the Interior Department, which oversees the National Park Service, say the reductions will have little impact on visitors\u2019 experiences, a claim some experts dispute. Tourists said they did not understand why the parks, of all government services, had to be cut.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Supporters of Yosemite, the country\u2019s third-oldest national park, see it as a model of the sort of bureaucratic leanness that President Trump and his advisers say they prize. Taxpayers spent about $32 million last year to keep Yosemite running, but roughly $60 million in other expenses were shouldered, wholly or in part, by volunteers and nonprofit groups that finance conservation and scientific work on public lands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last year, that money paid for roughly 400 permanent federal workers and another 345 seasonal ones. They tended the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/yose\/planyourvisit\/hh.htm\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Hetch Hetchy reservoir<\/a>, which feeds water to the San Francisco Bay Area; maintained trails; fought fires; lectured to students on field trips; and repaired countless locks on dwellings and storage areas. There is a branch of the U.S. District Court at Yosemite (even traffic tickets are a federal matter on park property). There is a medical clinic and a search-and-rescue cadre with a helicopter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cNo one would argue that it is illegitimate to look at staffing levels throughout the government,\u201d said Senator Angus King of Maine, an independent and the co-chair of a Senate subcommittee overseeing national parks. But, he added, \u201cthe idea of this kind of wholesale layoff is just an insult to the people of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Trump administration clearly believes otherwise. At a conservative political conference last month, Elon Musk, the billionaire tapped by Mr. Trump to ferret out federal waste, waved a chain saw at the audience to dramatize his plans for the federal bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe are focused on ensuring that every visitor has the chance to explore and connect with the incredible, iconic spaces of our national parks,\u201d a spokesperson for the Interior Department said in a statement, adding that the Park Service \u201cis working closely with the Office of Personnel Management to ensure we are prioritizing fiscal responsibility for the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The bulk of the four million people who visit Yosemite annually stay within a seven-square-mile area of waterfalls and sheer cliffs, including Half Dome, a summit that\u2019s three times as tall as the Empire State Building. The remaining 1,180 square miles are mostly wilderness, habitat for seasoned climbers, hikers and wildlife.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Workers at Yosemite and other parks have a wide-reaching impact. The helicopter rescue crew at Yosemite sets benchmarks for other aerial rescuers and is deployed far from the park. Park firefighters are part of a national network of trained experts who battle wildfires for state and county governments, and they pitch in at their parks to haul goods and assist incapacitated people in remote areas. Rangers drop their law enforcement duties to lead rescues. Air quality specialists monitor acid rain, which influences the overall health of parks and rivers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The number of vacancies in Yosemite \u2014 the roughly 10 dismissals and the 30-plus unfilled jobs from the hiring freeze, out of hundreds of positions \u2014 \u201cmay not seem dramatic,\u201d said Robin Wills, who headed the Park Service\u2019s fire and aviation operations in the West until he retired in 2022. \u201cBut each one of those positions fills some critical function that makes the park continue to operate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Critical need does not often translate to high pay. Mr. Lozano, the biological science technician, said he had been making less than $22 an hour before losing his job. Olek Chmura, 28, turned down a better-paying job as a plumber to clean latrines and scavenge beer bottles across 9,000 acres of campgrounds and trailheads in Yosemite. He made under $23 an hour as a custodian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cScraping excrement off toilets, squeegeeing urine out of bathrooms, picking diapers off the side of the road,\u201d Mr. Chmura said of his job. \u201cYou\u2019d really be surprised at the mess people make.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Musk\u2019s cost-cutting effort, known as the Department of Government Efficiency, deemed Mr. Chmura\u2019s skills and abilities unnecessary and fired him last week. That move left open the question of who will pick up the full truckbed of trash he said he collected daily during the high season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Employees worry that the firings \u2014 paired with a separate temporary freeze this winter on the hiring of hundreds of seasonal workers \u2014 spell chaos for the increasingly crowded spring season as well as summer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Park Service has said it intends to hire even more summer workers this year than usual, presumably making up for the hiring delay in the winter. But former park officials say that freeze upended hiring at a critical moment, leading applicants to take other jobs and throwing a wrench into tight schedules for training and housing new hires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Wills, the retired Park Service executive, said he feared a shortage of firefighters just as California wildfires are becoming both bigger and more frequent. Other experts fretted about the prospect of summertime traffic jams, noting that Yosemite is weeks late in gearing up a transportation management plan and a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/yose\/planyourvisit\/camping.htm\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">campground reservation system<\/a> for midsummer visits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Workers in Yosemite said they saw no rationale in the selection of those who were fired last month. They said they feared that the move was the opening salvo of a deeper gutting of the federal work force, as <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/25\/us\/politics\/trump-musk-doge-cuts-federal-workers.html\" title=\"\">emails circulating in several agencies suggest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt feels like they took a list of people and did a random number generator and were like, \u2018You\u2019re fired,\u2019 \u2018You\u2019re fired,\u2019\u201d said one probationary Yosemite worker who remains employed and who spoke on condition of anonymity because the person feared retaliation for speaking to a reporter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The loss of people on probation \u2014 the typically yearlong trial for new hires but also for career workers who take another job to move up the ladder \u2014 was particularly excruciating, workers said. In the Park Service, people often spend years cycling through precarious seasonal and temporary positions in the hope of someday securing a long-term role. Probation is the glide path to a permanent job.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Lozano, the fisher specialist, was but one example. He had worked nearly a decade in Yosemite, but had only been on the federal payroll since 2021. To win a spot on the crew studying the southern Sierra Nevada fisher, with the chance that it could lead to a permanent job, he worked without pay for nearly a year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-12\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe reality of probation is years of sacrifice, years of unstable jobs, to get the opportunity at having a stable position,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/press-release\/2022-11\/revised-critical-habitat-proposed-southern-sierra-nevada-fisher\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Fewer than 500 southern Sierra Nevada fishers<\/a> are believed to exist in and near Yosemite. In his last job, Mr. Lozano hauled traps into the icy backcountry and probed dead trees to uncover fisher dens. His team obtained special protection for dens it identified, boosting survival rates for the endangered weasel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When his team found the orphaned baby fisher last year, Mr. Lozano took charge of its care, moving into a room at the nearby Fresno Chaffee Zoo, where it was kept. He called the infant weasel Champ. Nursing Champ back to health was a seven-day-a-week job during which, he said, he rarely slept more than 45 minutes or an hour at a stretch. He was prescribed anxiety medication for the stress. Sleep deprivation drove him to two therapists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cObviously, I\u2019m not raising a child,\u201d Mr. Lozano said. Still, he added, he felt that in caring for Champ he had learned what it was like to be a parent, \u201cat least on an emotional level.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-13\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Andria Townsend, 36, a supervisory carnivore specialist who worked on the fisher team, lost her job as well. \u201cMy husband doesn\u2019t have a degree,\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s a line cook. We\u2019ve always lived like paycheck to paycheck. He\u2019s supported me through undergrad and grad school so that we could maybe eventually live a stable life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Both Mr. Lozano and Ms. Townsend received excellent performance reviews. If they were dismissed in the name of more efficient governance, there\u2019s one problem with that. The firings, it turns out, did not appear to save the National Park Service any money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Documents show that Mr. Lozano\u2019s and Ms. Townsend\u2019s salaries were largely paid by <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/yosemite.org\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Yosemite Conserva\u200b\u200bncy<\/a>, one of the many nonprofit groups that assist parks nationwide. Officials at the Conservancy did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Lozano\u2019s work with Champ ultimately paid off. The weasel not only survived, but grew healthy enough to re-enter the wilderness. 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