Act Now: Ask Congress to help restore US Public Land Recreation Staff

Greetings partners,

 

While the National Park Service has been cleared to hire seasonal workers, the same cannot be said for the US Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the US Fish & Wildlife Service. It appears that these agencies are able to hire for some positions, such as Wildland firefighters, Law Enforcement, and Search and Rescue, but other seasonal positions either directly or tangentially significant to outdoor recreation programming, resources, infrastructure & maintenance remain frozen.

Further, the reduction in workforce order and elimination of probationary employees has led to the loss of several positions, including recently promoted personnel. Senior staff, including national staff, are resigning from their posts.

Members of Congress across both parties and both houses need to hear from you about how the lack of personnel will effect your operation. Please take a moment and got to our call to action to send an email to your congressional delegation and ask them to continue to appeal to the Trump Administration to restore probationary personnel and lift the hiring freeze on seasonal personnel, especially at individual national forests, BLM field offices, USFWS refuges, and National Park Service sites.