COMMENTARY | Shutdown Could Provide Glimpse into the Future of Public Lands
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Kaylee Rodriguez | October 9, 2025
The Department of Interior is gearing up to slash its workforce, and as past shutdowns indicate, this means danger ahead for our parks and public lands ...
COMMENTARY | New Wave of Personnel Actions Threatens National Parks
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Kaylee Rodriguez | August 7, 2025
With peak visitation season underway, the National Park Service is struggling to keep up amid increasing uncertainty and understaffing ...
COMMENTARY | Public Lands Unprotected: The Impact of Department of the Interior Law Enforcement Firings
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Guest Contributor | April 11, 2025
With understaffing of law enforcement officers and rangers already a severe problem, the new wave of terminations is exacerbating under-enforcement into crisis status ...
Letter to NPS Acting Director Jessica Bowron – NPS employees return to work
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PEER | March 13, 2025
Letter to National Park Service Acting Director Jessica Bowron regarding the return to work for the illegally fired NPS employees ...
COMMENTARY | May Federal Employees Be Activists?
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Colleen Zimmerman | March 4, 2025
PEER is engaged in precedent-setting work to secure the rights of federal employees to publish and be active in civic organizations on their own time ...