Park Rangers shot from the National Recreation Area of the Mountains of Santa Monica and the Channel Channel Islands National Park heard on Thursday that his works will soon be reinstated.
The Association for the Conservation of Non -Party National Parks. A press release on Thursday that, as a result of the recent judicial orders, “the National Parks Service is authorized to completely restore 1,000 probation employees previously completed in the national parks throughout the country.” The dismissed workers included rangers, agents of the law, firefighters and other critical personnel, the group said.
“The American people love our national parks and want them protected for future generations,” said Theresa Pierno, president and executive director of the group, in a statement. “It's time for the administration to listen. We will not stop fighting until these attacks in our national parks come to an end.”
The workers contacted Thursday by The Times declined to speak in the registry, fearing that it would endanger their restoration.
On February 14, around 1,000 permanent workers of the National Parks Service that had not finished their trial period were fired as part of a waste reduction effort led by the CEO and the multimillion -dollar team Elon Musk of the White House, which he calls the Government Efficiency Department, or Doge.
The visitors of the National Park of the National Islands of Channel in Ventura, California.
(John Antczak / Associated Press)
The decision was the second court related to the Park by the Trump administration that found a generalized opposition that covers the political spectrum. In January, thousands of seasonal park workers were told that they would not be hired this season. The public protest in defense of national parks broke out in the form or social media protests and publications, and the Trump administration returned the effort approximately one month later.
On March 1, thousands of people, including hundreds in local accessories such as Joshua Tree National Park, the Channel Islands Ventura office and the mountains of Santa Monica, recovered in the parks to show their support for workers' permanent parks. Another national concentration “Protect the Parks” is planned for Saturday with events scheduled in Calabasas and Ventura.
The dismissed workers included about eight employees in the mountains of Santa Monica near Los Angeles and six on the Channel Islands. In the mountains of Santa Mónica, the dismissed workers included an emergency response worker and a parking lot trained in land management.
Two archaeologists in charge of surveying lands in the mountains of Santa Monica also shot. Katie Preston, one of the dismissed archaeologists, told the Times in the March rally that it was not clear how the $ 400,000 assigned to polite the park in search of cultural resources without any personnel to do the job. Only 30% of Santa Monica's mountains have been surveyed, which means possible historical reference points and sacred indigenous sites remain unknown and unprotected.
Santa Cruz Island, Channel Islands National Park. Scorpion Ranch, 2019.
(Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)
In the Channel Islands, Marino scientist Kenan Chan, who surveyed the algae forests and the park's tidal pools, was fired. The Channel Islands National Park has compiled data through its full -time personnel and seasonal workers in their seaweed forests and tidal swimming pools since 1982. Their dismissal meant that only two full -time workers remained to carry out the investigation.
Chan said Thursday on Instagram after a “month full of uncertainty, stress, sadness and frustration,” he was grateful to return to work. Chan thanked all those who had gathered to support the dismissed workers.
“I have not yet received any official document that confirms that I am once again an employee, but I have hopes,” Chan said. “We are back. We did it.”
The Lydia Jones rangers, who was fired from the Badlands National Park in Dakota del Sur, said Thursday on Instagram that she was delighted to share that she had been reinstated but was still worried about the possibility of future cuts.
“With large -scale reduction plans in force throughout the federal government, there is still the possibility that my position can be cut again,” said Jones. “However, one thing is safe: I will continue doing my work the best I can, whenever I can, at the service of the American people.”
