What it's like to work for the National Park Service right now
A view from inside the NPS as the Trump administration begins The social media activity of the National Park Service likely wasn?t a highlight of your feed until earlier this week. A series of ?rogue? accounts, such as the Badlands National Park Twitter account, began tweeting climate change facts as a response to the incoming administration?s order that select government agencies, such as the EPA and the Department of the Interior, limit contact with the public, including on social media.
Many of the posts focused on the science of climate change, a contradiction of the administration?s stated policy preferences, as well as those of Scott Pruitt, who has been nominated to be the head of the EPA.
This social media ban isn?t the only thing weighing on the minds of career civil servants and government employees. Earlier this week, the Trump administration announced a hiring freeze for federal employees. Along with the incoming administration?s anti-regulatory stance, ?drain the swamp? rhetoric, and potential funding cuts, it?s added up to a very uncertain time for public servants.
Congress just made it easier to sell off federal land, including national parks https://t.co/Eoa9Vsfr0E via @BI_contributors #RESISTANCE? Rogue NPS (@NPSRogue) January 27, 2017
To get a better sense of what?s going on inside the National Park Service, as well as other federal agencies, Curbed spoke anonymously with an NPS employee. The employee, a plant biologist who works at a nationa...
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