Maybe. A week after the February layoffs, and following a swell of public backlash, the park service announced it would hire up to 7,700 seasonal positions this year, more than the three-year average of 6,350 seasonal workers it normally hires. “There are just a lot of unknowns about how the seasonal program is going to work and whether it will be successful,” Tim Whitehouse, executive director at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a nonprofit serving as a resource for potential government whistleblowers, told Forbes, adding that it may vary park to park “but they are way behind schedule.”
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