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Denali presenter warns federal hiring freeze could reduce park services, strain local responders
Summary
A Denali Borough presenter told the borough that a federal hiring freeze affecting National Park Service seasonal hires and federal wildland crews may reduce visitor services, emergency response capacity and sanitation in park areas, potentially shifting burdens to local responders.
A Staff member, presenter for Denali Borough, told the borough that a federal hiring freeze affecting national agencies could reduce staffing for visitor services and emergency response at Denali National Park this summer.
The presenter said the National Park Service typically employs about 30 year-round staff and about 100 seasonal workers, and that many seasonal offers were rescinded or frozen after the hiring freeze. "There is a high potential that if that isn't able to be staffed or it's not able to be staffed until a later date in the summer, July 1, for example, that the extra burden of that is gonna…
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