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Planned Trump staffing cuts loom over National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife, Land Management

Cuts to the federal agencies that manage national parks, science and public lands are expected to result in firings across the West, Southeast and Great Lakes, among other places, Trump administration plans reveal.

In a court filing this week, the Interior Department said it plans to fire some 2,050 employees, including 272 at the National Park Service (NPS), 335 at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), 143 from the Fish and Wildlife Service and 474 at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).

Read more in The Hill here.

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