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Resistance Rangers requesting signatures in letter to DOI secretary
Resistance Rangers, a group of independent rangers and park professionals fighting back against recent unfair firings in the NPS, reiterates the need for the DOI to comply with reinstating those illegally fired employees.
Read more...ANPR welcomes displaced NPS professionals with free membership
Were you illegally terminated on the Valentine's Day massacre? Even if you've been reinstated, ANPR wants to welcome you with a free membership.
Read more...Disaster relief available to ANPR members for wildfire relief
Relief fund intended for members affected by any number of natural disasters
Read more...Strategic planning brainstorming session canceled
Read more...News Releases
Don't blink: Your NPS is being annihilated before your very eyes
24 Mar 2025
DOGE is attempting to dismantle our parks: Don't sit by and let it happen.
Read more...Stewardship Archive to safeguard essential public lands information
19 Mar 2025
Amid growing concern about the removal of public information related to climate change and other topics from the websites of federal agencies charged with protecting the country’s public lands, waters, and places of cultural heritage, the George Wright society has created The Stewardship Archive.
Read more...ANPR's Krumenaker gives testimony on FLASH Act
11 Mar 2025
Retired Big Bend NP superintendent Bob Krumenaker, on behalf of himself, the Association of National Park Rangers and the Coalition to Protect America's Parks, said Title I of the proposed FLASH Act takes a blunt, one-size-fits-all approach to border security that is inefficient and infeasible, especially given recent staffing cuts.
Read more...ANPR, NPCA joint letter to Acting NPS Director Jessica Bowron
04 Mar 2025
Associations ask Bowron to reinstate all displaced NPS employees.
Read more...Where are the rangers? The sad tale of your national parks this summer
18 Feb 2025
No picture of America's national parks is complete unless it includes rangers.
Read more...Wall Street Journal talks with ANPR about hiring freeze
10 Feb 2025
Article titled, "How Trump’s Hiring Freeze Could Affect Your Trip to a National Park" Halt hits seasonal workers at parks, where staff shortages can mean fewer visitor programs, neglected bathrooms and closed trails
Read more...Federal hiring freeze could block seasonal staffing
05 Feb 2025
Bellingham Herald reporter Daniel Schrager talks to ANPR about the possible effects of Trump's federal hiring freeze
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