National Parks Traveler Podcast | Staffing and Funding the Park Service

S7E351 - National Parks Traveler Podcast | Staffing and Funding the Park Service

Published: November 30, 2025

Duration: 48:47

It's Thanksgiving Weekend, usually interpreted as a bountiful time of year when we can all sit back and be thankful. But can many who work for the National Park Service feel thankful in the wake of the staff reductions this year? 

This year has been hard on the Park Service, what with the loss of roughly a quarter of the full-time workforce and questions around how the agency has long interpreted history.
  
But the Park Service has long struggled with its operations. Funding and staffing never seem to have met the needs of the Park Ser...