National Parks Traveler

News around public lands these days seems to revolve entirely around the Trump administration. In the case of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, many of the steps the administration is taking with the operational efficiencies of the National Park Service and other land ...

Smith stepped down in the fall of 2019 under curious circumstances that led Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility to charge that Smith was given a sweetheart deal to allow Vela to return as acting NPS director. The deal allowed Smith to live in North Carolina and work from ...

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility also has no idea how many vacancies there are. “We are still in [a lawsuit] with NPS about its 2003 staffing, rescues, and assaults. Have just filed similar requests covering 2024,” said Jeff Ruch, the organization’s Pacific director ...

President Trump’s move to eliminate civil service protections for a wide number of federal employees was challenged in federal court Tuesday by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which maintained the effort exceeds the president’s authority. Under the president ...

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a group that supports “current and former public employees who seek a higher standard of environmental ethics and scientific integrity within their agencies,” lists 17 “orphaned” areas in the National Park System ...