The effect on yellowstone
In 2.2 million acres, Yellowstone is about the size of Rhode Island and Delaware in combination. Seasonal park workers help manage and service the five entrances of the park, about 1,000 miles of backcountry trails, seven parks operating with 450 campsites, 52 picnic areas and 11 visitors’ centers, museums and contact stations.
Yellowstone has about 300 permanent employees, but usually hires 200 or more seasonal workers. Yellowstone administrators usually aim to fill these seasonal points by mid -March, so they are ready when the park opens in car traffic starting in mid -April. The federal recruitment process includes long -term history checks and some employees require specialized training for everything, from Grizzly Bear safety to first aid to horse packaging.
Even a seasonal job, such as the evacuation of waste containers, is critical to Yellowstone, where garbage should be collected daily from many containers throughout the park, they will become a source of food for grizzlies and other wild fauna.
Arianna Knight, 29, by Bozeman, Mont., Wilderness Trails supervisor for the Yellowstone area of ​​the Custer Gallatin National Park, was left on February 14th with more than 30 other employees of Custer Gallatin. Mrs Knight said that she and two workers under her supervision typically cleared 4,000 trees and logs of hundreds of miles of trails each year, often hiking and using hand tools for a week at a time in wildlife areas where federal law prohibits motor vehicles and mechanized tools such as chain saws.
Now these trails will not be cleaned, Ms Knight said, adding: “People will suffer.”
Will there be a personal search and rescue personal?
Others are worried about security in parks. According to a study study of the National Park 2023, the rate of heat and deaths associated with heat can be doubled in the coming years as temperatures rise due to climate change. In the summer of 2023, the NPS reported the highest number of heat -related diseases, citing deaths in the Big Bend National Park in Texas and the Death Valley National Park, where temperatures reached 129 degrees Fahrenheit. Last summer, the triple heat led to deaths at the Grand Canyon and the Canyonlands National Park in Utah.
