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Local organizations scrambled when the federal government froze some grant funds for wildfire preparation, trail maintenance and other work, then some saw the money trickle in again but with no guarantee it’ll continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sierra Club and other nonprofits are suing the Trump administration to reverse Forest Service firings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business owners and officials in forest towns, overwhelmingly dependent on recreation and tourism, are anxious about whether there will be enough federal workers to keep trails open, campgrounds clean and visitors coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some forest towns, like Mammoth Lakes in the eastern Sierra Nevada, are trying to backfill some anticipated federal losses with their own dollars. But that would be a tough undertaking for many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are a poor, rural county,” said Siskiyou County Supervisor Ed Valenzuela, who represents Mount Shasta. “Federal funding, it’s not like that money is going to be replicated anywhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rural California relies on federal funding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>He has cause for concern. The namesake mountain towers above the small town, drawing in thousands of visitors to climb and ski. In surrounding Siskiyou County, over 60% of the land is owned and managed by the U.S. Forest Service. As much as 6% of the county workforce is employed by the federal government, according to Census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s second only to neighboring Lassen County. Both are among the most Trump-supporting counties in the state. In Siskiyou County, nearly 60% voted for the president in November.[aside postID=news_12026245 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ap25023755326447-1020x681.jpeg']Estimates from state labor agencies show other small, forested counties in Northern California and the Sierra Nevada also have high shares of federal employment. By contrast, though federal agencies employ far more people at offices in urban counties, they’re only responsible for 1–2% of the workforces there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things are magnified in a small community,” said Tonya Dowse, executive director of the Siskiyou Economic Development Council, a nonprofit that receives several federal grants to help small businesses, farmers and towns including Mount Shasta. “Small reductions are felt to a greater extent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal land makes up the majority of many rural counties, which are already dealing with the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2025/03/rural-counties/\">likely loss of millions of federal dollars\u003c/a> that prop up their school systems and public works departments. Rural hospitals are \u003ca href=\"https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/01/15/medicaids-role-in-small-towns-and-rural-areas/\">generally more reliant\u003c/a> on the massive low-income health program Medicaid. Their populations are older and poorer, making the Social Security Administration and federally funded safety net programs critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034416\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the rural Siskiyou County community of Happy Camp on Dec. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Federal officials have not been forthcoming about exactly how many workers have been fired and reinstated in recent weeks, and locals say they’re unsure themselves. The Forest Service in February cut at least 3,400 probationary employees nationwide. The Washington Post reported last week that the administration plans new cuts of \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/27/federal-worker-layoffs-government-agencies/\">between 8% to 50% across federal agencies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Forest Service, who would not provide a name, would say only that probationary employees who were fired in February were placed in March under a “phased plan for return-to-duty.” Thomas Stokesberry, a spokesperson for the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, directed a separate request for a breakdown of staffing cuts to the regional Forest Service press office, which did not respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Mount Shasta, everyone seems to know someone who is affected. John Redmond, a bar owner who is also the mayor, said his regulars who work at the local Forest Service district office haven’t been spending as much since they were fired or heard of cuts. Timothy Keating, a longtime mountain guide, said he depends on a fully staffed Forest Service to approve his operating permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down the street, an outdoor goods store manager named Michelle is also worried about economic fallout. She wouldn’t give her last name out of fear of drawing attention to her husband, a federal employee who she said was anxious about losing his job in the next round of reductions in force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of federal workers make up our middle class,” she said. “This can really hurt our local tax base and spending levels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trump’s cuts will hit a divided county\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yet others welcome cuts, even if they’ll hit the local economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the town of Mount Shasta is liberal, its streets of Subarus, crystal shops and bed-and-breakfasts welcoming out-of-town mountaineers give way quickly to vast stretches of the county where ranchers and loggers have long clashed with environmentalists and chafed at state and federal regulations.[aside postID=news_12028454 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2177324845-1020x680.jpg']Longtime resentment over Forest Service management and the decline of the timber industry have split the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many in Mount Shasta cheered when then-President Joe Biden, in his last days in office in January, designated a new national monument on Forest Service lands outside the town, increasing federal protections there. Other Siskiyou County residents, including Supervisor W. Jess Harris, celebrated when Trump indicated last month he may revoke the designation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris acknowledges the county relies on the federal government for both services and jobs — but he said it doesn’t have to be that way. He hopes federal cuts will reduce grants to environmental nonprofits that he says have hampered private industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulations like those that restrict logging to protect the spotted owl, listed as a threatened species, have “effectively damaged all of our natural resource industries,” he said. “Our area’s just a prime example of what happens when you kill the industry and become reliant on the government jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Dorsey, chair of the local Republican Party, said he welcomes reducing federal spending and doesn’t believe the cuts will be drastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the idea is to sit back and wait and see where the cuts are going to be made, and do we actually need those programs anymore?” he said. “We have too many -ologists all over the place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other local politicians are caught in the middle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblywoman Heather Hadwick, a Republican from Alturas, represents 11 rural counties across Northern California, including Siskiyou. 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Hadwick’s husband manages a local office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and she’s seen firsthand how “his people are stressed.” But her district, which she said already holds deep distrust of the government, voted for cuts and spending reviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s going to be uncomfortable for a while and it’s going to hurt, I know some of those programs that I care about deeply are going to be affected,” she said. “My district is very conservative, and I am very conservative … I’m going to trust in my president and trust what he’s doing is best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With both federal uncertainty and local polarization, some are hesitant to speak publicly against the cuts. The leader of one nonprofit in Siskiyou County detailed to CalMatters how the group had a Forest Service grant temporarily frozen, delaying the hiring of contractors. But after meeting with the rest of the organization the leader asked to withdraw their comments, stressing the need to remain “apolitical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Other forest towns are preparing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In bluer parts of California, some forest towns are trying to mount a small resistance. Council members in Truckee, near Lake Tahoe, last month \u003ca href=\"https://www.townoftruckee.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=116\">passed a resolution\u003c/a> denouncing possible federal cuts, citing the impact they would have on the region’s ability to prevent wildfires and accommodate tourists visiting the Tahoe National Forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar resolutions have passed in a handful of local fire protection districts and in the eastern Sierra Nevada town of Mammoth Lakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town, population 7,200, balloons to nearly quadruple its size on the weekends, from skiers in winter to backpackers, climbers and tourists in spring, summer and fall. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Estimates from state labor agencies show other small, forested counties in Northern California and the Sierra Nevada also have high shares of federal employment. By contrast, though federal agencies employ far more people at offices in urban counties, they’re only responsible for 1–2% of the workforces there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things are magnified in a small community,” said Tonya Dowse, executive director of the Siskiyou Economic Development Council, a nonprofit that receives several federal grants to help small businesses, farmers and towns including Mount Shasta. “Small reductions are felt to a greater extent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal land makes up the majority of many rural counties, which are already dealing with the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2025/03/rural-counties/\">likely loss of millions of federal dollars\u003c/a> that prop up their school systems and public works departments. Rural hospitals are \u003ca href=\"https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/01/15/medicaids-role-in-small-towns-and-rural-areas/\">generally more reliant\u003c/a> on the massive low-income health program Medicaid. 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The Forest Service in February cut at least 3,400 probationary employees nationwide. The Washington Post reported last week that the administration plans new cuts of \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/27/federal-worker-layoffs-government-agencies/\">between 8% to 50% across federal agencies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Forest Service, who would not provide a name, would say only that probationary employees who were fired in February were placed in March under a “phased plan for return-to-duty.” Thomas Stokesberry, a spokesperson for the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, directed a separate request for a breakdown of staffing cuts to the regional Forest Service press office, which did not respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Mount Shasta, everyone seems to know someone who is affected. John Redmond, a bar owner who is also the mayor, said his regulars who work at the local Forest Service district office haven’t been spending as much since they were fired or heard of cuts. Timothy Keating, a longtime mountain guide, said he depends on a fully staffed Forest Service to approve his operating permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down the street, an outdoor goods store manager named Michelle is also worried about economic fallout. She wouldn’t give her last name out of fear of drawing attention to her husband, a federal employee who she said was anxious about losing his job in the next round of reductions in force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of federal workers make up our middle class,” she said. “This can really hurt our local tax base and spending levels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trump’s cuts will hit a divided county\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yet others welcome cuts, even if they’ll hit the local economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the town of Mount Shasta is liberal, its streets of Subarus, crystal shops and bed-and-breakfasts welcoming out-of-town mountaineers give way quickly to vast stretches of the county where ranchers and loggers have long clashed with environmentalists and chafed at state and federal regulations.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Longtime resentment over Forest Service management and the decline of the timber industry have split the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many in Mount Shasta cheered when then-President Joe Biden, in his last days in office in January, designated a new national monument on Forest Service lands outside the town, increasing federal protections there. Other Siskiyou County residents, including Supervisor W. Jess Harris, celebrated when Trump indicated last month he may revoke the designation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris acknowledges the county relies on the federal government for both services and jobs — but he said it doesn’t have to be that way. He hopes federal cuts will reduce grants to environmental nonprofits that he says have hampered private industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulations like those that restrict logging to protect the spotted owl, listed as a threatened species, have “effectively damaged all of our natural resource industries,” he said. “Our area’s just a prime example of what happens when you kill the industry and become reliant on the government jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Dorsey, chair of the local Republican Party, said he welcomes reducing federal spending and doesn’t believe the cuts will be drastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the idea is to sit back and wait and see where the cuts are going to be made, and do we actually need those programs anymore?” he said. “We have too many -ologists all over the place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other local politicians are caught in the middle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblywoman Heather Hadwick, a Republican from Alturas, represents 11 rural counties across Northern California, including Siskiyou. She said she’s worried about the economic ripple effects of job losses in small towns, and about funding delays in local wildfire mitigation projects, when now is the season to make those preparations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034417\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/022025_Capitol-Session_FG_CM_28-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/022025_Capitol-Session_FG_CM_28-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/022025_Capitol-Session_FG_CM_28-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/022025_Capitol-Session_FG_CM_28-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/022025_Capitol-Session_FG_CM_28-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/022025_Capitol-Session_FG_CM_28-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/022025_Capitol-Session_FG_CM_28-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Heather Hadwick speaks before lawmakers during an Assembly floor session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Feb. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s personal, too. Hadwick’s husband manages a local office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and she’s seen firsthand how “his people are stressed.” But her district, which she said already holds deep distrust of the government, voted for cuts and spending reviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s going to be uncomfortable for a while and it’s going to hurt, I know some of those programs that I care about deeply are going to be affected,” she said. “My district is very conservative, and I am very conservative … I’m going to trust in my president and trust what he’s doing is best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With both federal uncertainty and local polarization, some are hesitant to speak publicly against the cuts. The leader of one nonprofit in Siskiyou County detailed to CalMatters how the group had a Forest Service grant temporarily frozen, delaying the hiring of contractors. But after meeting with the rest of the organization the leader asked to withdraw their comments, stressing the need to remain “apolitical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Other forest towns are preparing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In bluer parts of California, some forest towns are trying to mount a small resistance. Council members in Truckee, near Lake Tahoe, last month \u003ca href=\"https://www.townoftruckee.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=116\">passed a resolution\u003c/a> denouncing possible federal cuts, citing the impact they would have on the region’s ability to prevent wildfires and accommodate tourists visiting the Tahoe National Forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar resolutions have passed in a handful of local fire protection districts and in the eastern Sierra Nevada town of Mammoth Lakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town, population 7,200, balloons to nearly quadruple its size on the weekends, from skiers in winter to backpackers, climbers and tourists in spring, summer and fall. It needs the visitors: Nearly three-quarters of Mammoth Lakes’ revenue comes from a bed tax on hotels and Airbnbs, Mayor Chris Bubser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bubser said the city has already hired a new staff member to pick up trash and help maintain local campgrounds in case there aren’t enough Forest Service personnel to do so this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in March, the Mammoth Lakes Town Council agreed to provide $700,000 in bridge funding for a forest-thinning and wildfire resilience project run by a local nonprofit that spans 58,000 acres of mostly national forest land surrounding the town. The project relies on about $17 million in different federal grants, some of which is frozen, she said. 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KQED’s Sarah Mohamad talks about how these layoffs are affecting workers — and how your next visit to a national park might be a little different. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC3579175756&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996198/what-you-should-know-about-visiting-national-parks-right-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What You Should Know About Visiting National Parks Right Now\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohammed \u003c/strong>[00:02:14] I definitely am one of those national parks lovers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:19] Sarah Mohamad is a producer and reporter covering science for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:02:24] I am on a mission to visit all 63 in the US. I think I’ve only done like 10 or 11. So yeah, definitely a big fan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:34] Do you have a favorite in California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:02:36] Oh man, I know this is gonna sound like everybody else’s favorite, but I do love Yosemite. I go every year. It’s the closest to where I live. And I’m on a mission to try to like do the Half Dome, which I know sounds kind of ambitious, but hopefully one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:53] Yeah, it’s, I mean, it’s everyone’s favorite for a reason, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:02:58] Exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:03] Well, I mean, Sarah, there’s been obviously headline after headline after headline over the last couple of weeks about the firings of federal workers all over the country. But how did you start to first hear a word of firings at the National Park Service specifically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:03:23] So I was scrolling Instagram, right, on President’s Day holiday and I saw a post by this person named “Ranger Wild” who’s also known as Alex Wild. 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So in the Bay Area, for example, we have the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which is not a national park per se. but it’s managed by the National Park Service, and so it’s included in that list of 400 sites. These federal cuts in the National Park Service, there’s no evidence that it’s really gonna save money for the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:09] I know you talked with some folks who were starting to get these layoff notices. Who did you talk to?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kenan Chan \u003c/strong>[00:06:17] Yeah, my name is Kenan Chan. It’s spelled…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:06:21] I spoke with a guy named Kenan Chan, who grew up in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kenan Chan \u003c/strong>[00:06:27] Biological science technician, fisheries diver, lead diver. 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Eventually, after a few minutes, he did get an email, basically, as you’ve probably seen the termination letter. I think I have it right here. We failed to demonstrate fitness or qualifications for continued employment because of our subject matter knowledge skills and abilities do not meet the department’s needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:08:34] The email that he got was similar to the email that other people had shared as well of how, you know, they were laid off because of incompetencies and things like that. But as he shared, he never really had issues with performance reviews, never had any red flags, basically, during his career. So definitely came as a surprise for him when he found out that he had to leave the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kenan Chan \u003c/strong>[00:09:00] I would say it happened very fast and unexpectedly, but also I think it was in all of the back of our minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:14] I mean, you mentioned Kenan being part of studies that have been going on for 40 years now. I mean, what is his layoff going to mean for the work that he was doing for the National Park Service?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:09:29] So with Kenan fired there is one less person in that small team of three, only three, doing the monitoring right now, which could impact the data collection and research moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kenan Chan \u003c/strong>[00:09:43] The public very well might not notice my absence, but there’s a lot of different programs that happen outside of the public view that are critical elements to maintaining that for generations to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:02] How the Park Service was doing before these cuts, and how visitors can expect to feel the impact. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:50] How was the National Park Service doing before these layoffs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:10:56] So in terms of visitation numbers, the parks have been doing really well. The National Park Service had a record-breaking visitation last year, over 330 million visitors that came to national parks across the nation. And so the numbers say that that’s about 6 million more than in 2023, but the National Park Service has always had staffing and budget challenges even before the layoffs. So over the past decade, reports showed that staffing at NPS has dropped by roughly 20 percent, while visitation has increased by about 16 percent. So these numbers mean that even though millions of Americans were flocking to the parks, the parks was already grappling with underfunding and understaffing issues that set the stage for further disruptions when even more cuts came into play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:56] Yeah, so say you’re planning a trip to one of these national parks in California. Actually, our producer, Jessica Kariisa, has a trip planned to Yosemite next month. I mean, what should someone like her expect to see or feel in terms of the impacts of these layoffs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:12:17] These layoffs have definitely impacted those public facing roles. Things like, you know, campsite maintenance, custodial teams, and even search and rescue personnel. So without these people, there can be extreme consequences for visitors safety and health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neal Desai \u003c/strong>[00:12:33] Visitors should expect noticeable impacts and unfortunately they’re all the bad types of impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:12:38] I spoke to Neal Desai, who is the Pacific Regional Director at the National Parks Conservation Association. So that’s an independent, non-partisan organization advocating for the NPS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neal Desai \u003c/strong>[00:12:51] At like popular parks expect long lines and traffic like for example at Yosemite expect to be stuck in traffic for four hours or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:13:01] He says that people should expect unmaintained trails, toilets, trash overflowing, long lines and being stuck in traffic for longer than usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neal Desai \u003c/strong>[00:13:12] Camping reservations at some parks like Yosemite have been pulled back because parks don’t know how to staff them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:18] Yeah, it seems like these are the things that we sort of take for granted when visiting these parks. Just like having a clean bathroom and having easy access to even just getting inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:13:30] Yeah, exactly. And a lot of the people I spoke to were worried about safety and health mainly, but also are telling visitors to set their expectations before visiting a national park this year because it’s a little unpredictable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neal Desai \u003c/strong>[00:13:43] And that’s what the public might be able to easily see. And then there’s all sorts of other impacts, like research programs to help protect water and wildlife in our parks are going to be disrupted because scientists have been laid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:57] I mean, so it sounds like Neal is doing advocacy. 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Our national parks are loved by all Americans across the political spectrum. They’re one of the few nonpartisan issues that we see in our nation. And they happen to be equally owned by every single person. And so attacking this institution is bad politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:17] Well, Sarah, it sounds like there’s going to be these very obvious ways that visitors of the parks will feel the impact of these layoffs, but also these sort of less obvious ways like in the case of Kenan’s job. Can we expect more layoffs in the near future?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:15:35] I haven’t heard any recent news after the thousand people layoff and the 700 people accepting the buyouts, but more recently, we’ve heard about how the Trump administration is planning to terminate national park service leases and close 34 offices across the country. 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I am also hoping to visit in a few months, and it’s definitely a time to be extra cautious when going to national parks right now. In terms of planning, I would advise people to check weather alerts in case of extreme conditions like heat. You wouldn’t want to be in Death Valley, for example, when the temperature is like in the hundreds, knowing that there may be a lack of park staff. Other things that experts have told me, bring first aid supplies, medicine, just in case there’s an emergency and there aren’t enough EMTs available. And it’s always a good idea to plan to arrive early during less crowded times. And if you’re planning to do some hiking at those parks, make sure to check those trail updates. So with that said, without these amazing folks, it’s more crucial now than ever that we kind of help keep our parks clean and safe when we visit. So, you know, it can be these small things like helping pick up trash at campsites and trails when we see it and helping others in need the best way we can. And so if you do go visit, don’t forget to appreciate the people at the park, working at the park. Don’t forget to thank the rangers and staff if you see them and just show them that, you know, that they’re valued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:05] Great tips for sure. Well, Sarah, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:18:08] Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:16] That was Sarah Mohammed, a producer and reporter covering science for KQED. Thanks to KQED reporter Brian Kranz for some of the tape that you heard at the top of this episode. We heard from Coral, Belisi and Sue Gardner. This 20 minute conversation with Sarah was cut down and edited by producer Jessica Kariisa. I produced this episode, scored it and added all the tape. Alan Montecillo is our senior editor. music courtesy of Audio Network and Blue Dot Sessions. Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California Local. Support for The Bay is provided in part by the Osher Production Fund. I’m Erika Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:19] Sarah Mohamad is a producer and reporter covering science for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:02:24] I am on a mission to visit all 63 in the US. I think I’ve only done like 10 or 11. So yeah, definitely a big fan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:34] Do you have a favorite in California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:02:36] Oh man, I know this is gonna sound like everybody else’s favorite, but I do love Yosemite. I go every year. It’s the closest to where I live. And I’m on a mission to try to like do the Half Dome, which I know sounds kind of ambitious, but hopefully one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:53] Yeah, it’s, I mean, it’s everyone’s favorite for a reason, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:02:58] Exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:03] Well, I mean, Sarah, there’s been obviously headline after headline after headline over the last couple of weeks about the firings of federal workers all over the country. But how did you start to first hear a word of firings at the National Park Service specifically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:03:23] So I was scrolling Instagram, right, on President’s Day holiday and I saw a post by this person named “Ranger Wild” who’s also known as Alex Wild. He’s a former park ranger at one of the parks in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:03:41] His post read something like, today I lost my dream job as a permanent park ranger in the NPS. He continues to sort of talk about his role as a park ranger and the only EMT at a national monument in California, and how he was really heartbroken about losing his job. And then I saw that he wasn’t the only one fired from the National Park Service. There were like a dozen others sharing quite similar stories that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:07] Yeah, what were you hearing exactly about, I guess the extent of these firings?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:04:14] So as of mid-February, Trump’s administration had fired over 1,000 National Park Service employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:04:26] It’s part of a broader effort to reduce the federal workforce. I heard about park rangers who had decades of experience working at NPS being fired, and search and rescue officers who had critical roles at the park being fired. We also lost the only locksmith in Yosemite from the layoffs. Then there are people like scientists, custodial workers, firefighters, a wide range of other roles impacted as well. And on top of that, there were about 700 park service workers who were participating in the administration’s buyout program. So that program allows them to resign now, but then they still get benefits through September. All those people impacted make up about 10% of the park staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:14] I mean, everyone loves national parks, especially here in California. Has there been any word from the Trump administration about why workers at the National Park Service have been laid off?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:05:26] So there hasn’t really been any clear reasoning by the administration about why they’re firing staff from the National Park Service. Within the national park system, we have over 400 national park sites across the country. So that includes not just parks that we are very familiar with, but also preserves and like other sites. So in the Bay Area, for example, we have the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which is not a national park per se. but it’s managed by the National Park Service, and so it’s included in that list of 400 sites. These federal cuts in the National Park Service, there’s no evidence that it’s really gonna save money for the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:09] I know you talked with some folks who were starting to get these layoff notices. Who did you talk to?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kenan Chan \u003c/strong>[00:06:17] Yeah, my name is Kenan Chan. It’s spelled…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:06:21] I spoke with a guy named Kenan Chan, who grew up in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kenan Chan \u003c/strong>[00:06:27] Biological science technician, fisheries diver, lead diver. 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Eventually, after a few minutes, he did get an email, basically, as you’ve probably seen the termination letter. I think I have it right here. We failed to demonstrate fitness or qualifications for continued employment because of our subject matter knowledge skills and abilities do not meet the department’s needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:08:34] The email that he got was similar to the email that other people had shared as well of how, you know, they were laid off because of incompetencies and things like that. But as he shared, he never really had issues with performance reviews, never had any red flags, basically, during his career. 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So that’s an independent, non-partisan organization advocating for the NPS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neal Desai \u003c/strong>[00:12:51] At like popular parks expect long lines and traffic like for example at Yosemite expect to be stuck in traffic for four hours or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:13:01] He says that people should expect unmaintained trails, toilets, trash overflowing, long lines and being stuck in traffic for longer than usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neal Desai \u003c/strong>[00:13:12] Camping reservations at some parks like Yosemite have been pulled back because parks don’t know how to staff them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:18] Yeah, it seems like these are the things that we sort of take for granted when visiting these parks. 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What has his general reaction been to these layoffs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:14:05] Yeah, he thinks that these layouts have been unstrategic and bad politics, as he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neal Desai \u003c/strong>[00:14:14] This is going to impact people like this will impact people who love parks. It doesn’t matter who you voted for, right? Like you’re not immune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:14:21] There was a poll conducted before Trump’s inauguration that shows that the majority of Americans across political parties approve of the National Park Service and USFS performance. So he’s definitely against it and he’s working hard with his organization to help staff impacted by the layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neal Desai \u003c/strong>[00:14:44] If this is supposed to be about America first, this is a complete failure, right? Our national parks are loved by all Americans across the political spectrum. They’re one of the few nonpartisan issues that we see in our nation. And they happen to be equally owned by every single person. And so attacking this institution is bad politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:17] Well, Sarah, it sounds like there’s going to be these very obvious ways that visitors of the parks will feel the impact of these layoffs, but also these sort of less obvious ways like in the case of Kenan’s job. Can we expect more layoffs in the near future?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:15:35] I haven’t heard any recent news after the thousand people layoff and the 700 people accepting the buyouts, but more recently, we’ve heard about how the Trump administration is planning to terminate national park service leases and close 34 offices across the country. 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I am also hoping to visit in a few months, and it’s definitely a time to be extra cautious when going to national parks right now. In terms of planning, I would advise people to check weather alerts in case of extreme conditions like heat. You wouldn’t want to be in Death Valley, for example, when the temperature is like in the hundreds, knowing that there may be a lack of park staff. Other things that experts have told me, bring first aid supplies, medicine, just in case there’s an emergency and there aren’t enough EMTs available. And it’s always a good idea to plan to arrive early during less crowded times. And if you’re planning to do some hiking at those parks, make sure to check those trail updates. So with that said, without these amazing folks, it’s more crucial now than ever that we kind of help keep our parks clean and safe when we visit. So, you know, it can be these small things like helping pick up trash at campsites and trails when we see it and helping others in need the best way we can. And so if you do go visit, don’t forget to appreciate the people at the park, working at the park. Don’t forget to thank the rangers and staff if you see them and just show them that, you know, that they’re valued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:05] Great tips for sure. Well, Sarah, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:18:08] Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:16] That was Sarah Mohammed, a producer and reporter covering science for KQED. Thanks to KQED reporter Brian Kranz for some of the tape that you heard at the top of this episode. We heard from Coral, Belisi and Sue Gardner. This 20 minute conversation with Sarah was cut down and edited by producer Jessica Kariisa. 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In the trust’s defense, it also quotes four board members Trump appointed during his first term in office, and it highlights the public-private partnership’s financial self-sufficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Presidio Trust is a national treasure, and the Presidio Trust Act is one of the most creative efforts I have seen in government,” said Thomas Fargo, who Trump appointed to the board in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Presidio Trust’s report is in response to a Feb. 19 executive order from the Trump administration that aimed to all but eliminate four federal agencies. 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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to eliminate the Presidio Trust, the federal agency that runs and protects the Presidio of San Francisco, a national historic landmark since 1962. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The report lists the broad statutory powers written in the Presidio Trust Act, which Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D–San Francisco) said was written to withstand attacks, whether they came from the federal government or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028300/trump-order-revives-fears-real-estate-push-san-franciscos-presidio\">private sector interests\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew we would be under assault because there were people who just didn’t want something new like that, so we had a strong statutory bill,” she said last month, adding that “statutory” simply means functions that are protected by law. “We knew we were breaking ground, and we were not going to leave it broken. So when [Trump] comes after this and says, ‘We want to review what a bill is,’ he’s going to find a model for the country on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Presidio Trust Act gives the federal agency broad powers over the former Army base, which was rehabilitated into a national park site under the trust’s stewardship. It says that a seven-member board, whose members are selected by the current president and the secretary of the interior when their four-year terms expire, will oversee the powers and management of the trust and that the trust is authorized to appoint and pay employees, including an executive director, as it sees fit.[aside postID=news_12027864 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/DSC_1576_qed-1-1020x676.jpg']It also gives the trust blanket power to manage properties within the Presidio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Trust may adopt, amend, repeal, and enforce bylaws, rules and regulations governing the manner in which its business may be conducted and the powers vested in it may be exercised, including rules and regulations for the use and management of the property under the Trust’s jurisdiction,” the statute reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also says the agency will retain any revenue — which its \u003ca href=\"https://wp.presidio.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Revised-Fiscal-Year-2025-Budget-November-15-2024-accessible.pdf?_ga=2.176228513.52663699.1741197762-1103286321.1737736316\">2025 interim budget (PDF)\u003c/a> estimates will be around $46 million — and use it to maintain and improve its properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Presidio Trust had not received regular appropriations from Congress since 2013, when it was required to become financially independent. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It also gives the trust blanket power to manage properties within the Presidio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Trust may adopt, amend, repeal, and enforce bylaws, rules and regulations governing the manner in which its business may be conducted and the powers vested in it may be exercised, including rules and regulations for the use and management of the property under the Trust’s jurisdiction,” the statute reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also says the agency will retain any revenue — which its \u003ca href=\"https://wp.presidio.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Revised-Fiscal-Year-2025-Budget-November-15-2024-accessible.pdf?_ga=2.176228513.52663699.1741197762-1103286321.1737736316\">2025 interim budget (PDF)\u003c/a> estimates will be around $46 million — and use it to maintain and improve its properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Presidio Trust had not received regular appropriations from Congress since 2013, when it was required to become financially independent. Instead, its $138 million budget comes from leasing revenue, donations and private investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report says the trust has generated more than $1 billion since 2013. It currently leases 1,400 housing units to over 3,100 San Francisco residents, operates two hotels and a public golf course within its boundaries, and rents rehabilitated historic buildings to more than 300 businesses, like the Walt Disney Museum and Colibri and Dalida restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump appointees Carole McNeil and Lynne Benioff praised the way the agency is run, calling it a successful business and trustworthy project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The transformation of the Presidio from a derelict Army post into a marvelous national park has been remarkable,” Marie Hurabiell, who Trump appointed to the Trust in 2018, said in the report. “It was a pleasure to serve on the board of such a well-run entity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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It’s just the latest example of how much film and television production now occurs outside of Los Angeles, costing local jobs and raising questions about the very future of Hollywood.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Saturday, people gathered at national parks across the country \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2025-03-01/hundreds-gather-at-joshua-tree-national-park-to-protest-federal-cuts\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">to protest \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the firing of 1,000 National Park employees. Some 90 miles east of Los Angeles at Joshua Tree National Park, hundreds joined the movement. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Declaring \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/03/01/with-growing-fire-risk-governor-newsom-proclaims-state-of-emergency-to-fast-track-critical-wildfire-prevention-projects-statewide/\">a state of emergency\u003c/a>, Gavin Governor Newsom has suspended two landmark state laws – the California Environmental Quality Act and the California Coastal Act.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Can Tax Credits Help Keep TV/Film Production In California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Film and television production has long been a staple of Hollywood. But the state’s production \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2025/02/24/newsom-wants-to-more-than-double-californias-film-industry-tax-credit-would-it-pay-for-itself/\">has been in decline\u003c/a> since the 2000s. That’s why last year, Governor Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/10/27/governor-newsom-proposes-historic-expansion-of-film-tv-tax-credit-program/\">proposed a major expansion\u003c/a> of the state’s tv and film tax credit program. It would expand California’s Film & Television Tax Credit Program to $750 million annually, up from the current $330 million annual allocation. This proposed expansion would position California as the top state for capped film incentive programs, surpassing other states like New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is the entertainment capital of the world, rooted in decades of creativity, innovation, and unparalleled talent. Expanding this program will help keep production here at home, generate thousands of good-paying jobs, and strengthen the vital link between our communities and the state’s iconic film and TV industry,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tax credit program, first introduced in 2009, is designed to cut production costs and keep film and TV jobs in California. But is it working? Take the new NBC Peacock drama “Suits L.A.” The show was originally set to film out of state. Then, after receiving $12 million in California tax credits, it moved production to Los Angeles. In return, the show is expected to generate $25 million in wages and create more than 2,600 jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other states and countries are also trying to lure big productions. And it’s still unclear if these tax credits make a dent in wider economic growth. A \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2025/5000/Film-Tax-Credit-022825.pdf\">recent report released\u003c/a> by the non-partisan Legislative Analyst’s Office expressed doubts, finding that tax credits are “rarely effective at creating broader economic development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2025-03-01/hundreds-gather-at-joshua-tree-national-park-to-protest-federal-cuts\">\u003cstrong>Hundreds Gather At Joshua Tree National Park To Protest Federal Cuts\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, people gathered at national parks all over the country to protest \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5307908/national-parks-layoffs-visitors-disruptions\">the firing of 1000 national park employees.\u003c/a> At Joshua Tree National Park, hundreds joined the movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six rangers were fired last month at Joshua Tree as part of the Trump administration’s push to downsize the federal workforce. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump’s\u003c/a> executive order \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027864/trump-moves-slash-presidio-trust-agency-runs-historic-sf-park\">targeting San Francisco’s Presidio\u003c/a> revived fears that the beloved public land could be eyed for a real estate grab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wouldn’t be the first time San Francisco’s bayside was targeted for upscale development — but, much like a failed proposal to build a coastal North Bay city, this project is unlikely to move forward due to legislation protecting the Presidio and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1960s, Pittsburgh real estate developer Thomas Frouge envisioned the Marin Headlands as a bustling oceanside metropolis — 30,000 residents living in apartment towers and single-family homes nestled into the North Bay hillsides, with an upscale hotel and a mile of shopping overlooking San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans for “Marincello,” as he called it, were greenlit by the Marin County Board of Supervisors but stalled after a six-year legal battle with environmental groups and federal legislation that established and protected the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in 1972.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The statute was passed in response in part to fears that the Marin Headlands and other beautiful areas would get developed and wanting them to stay as public open space,” Dave Owen, a professor at UC Law San Francisco, said in an interview. “It particularly says … the Secretary [of the Interior] shall preserve the recreation area as far as possible in its natural setting and protect it from development and uses which would destroy the scenic beauty and natural character.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028427\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028427\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/eucalyptusgrove6_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/eucalyptusgrove6_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/eucalyptusgrove6_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/eucalyptusgrove6_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/eucalyptusgrove6_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/eucalyptusgrove6_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/eucalyptusgrove6_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy Goldsworthy’s Wood Line slithers through the Presidio’s largest grove of eucalyptus trees, attracting hikers, runners photographers and tourists alike. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That statute is embedded in the Presidio Trust Act, which created the federal agency overseeing the national park at San Francisco’s northern tip and sets strict conservation guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Trump called for the Presidio Trust to eliminate its non-statutory operations “to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law,” the 1,500-acre park was quickly reconsidered as a potential site for a futuristic city based on a Trump campaign plan. In March 2023, he proposed hosting a competition to create 10 “freedom cities” on federal land that would jumpstart development and be a “quantum leap in the American standard of living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12027864 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/DSC_1576_qed-1-1020x676.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Mark Lutter and Jeffrey Mason of the Charter Cities Institute, an organization that advocates for independent cities with new governance systems, published an article in \u003cem>Palladium\u003c/em> magazine calling on the president to start work on the “Presidio Freedom City.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Trump and Congress have the opportunity to turn the 1,500-acre Presidio into a Freedom City and compete with mismanaged San Francisco,” Lutter \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MarkLutter/status/1892293775860408804\">posted on social media platform X\u003c/a> after the order was signed last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs have promoted it as a hub for AI and crypto headquarters, but legislators say the law protecting the space was designed to prevent such an “attack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The [Presidio Trust Act] was written by all of us in a very careful way,” former Rep. Barbara Boxer said Monday on KQED’s\u003cem> Forum\u003c/em>. “We understood the jewel that this is, we understood the commercial value of this, and we understood that there might be people now and way into the future that might want to get their hands on it and make it a personal investment instead of a public investment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law passed in 1996 includes two key provisions that make it nearly impossible for Trump — or anyone — to change the park’s footprint without changing the law, according to Owen. One is the inclusion of the Presidio in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which stopped the coast of the North Bay from becoming Marincello and “protects the Presidio from development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027868\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027868\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lawn of the Main Parade Ground in front of the Walt Disney Museum in the Presidio of San Francisco, California, on March 13, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Presidio Trust Act also has a specific provision that limits the minimal development within the park to the “replacement of existing structures of similar size in existing areas of development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way that you could reconcile creating Shenzhen, China, with that provision,” Owen told KQED. “You can’t even reconcile that provision with building a new office building in what’s currently a meadow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Trump will be able to make any changes to the Trust’s operations remains unclear. The agency first has to submit a report to the Department of Budget and Management detailing its operations and defending its statutory backing in the next two weeks. It has said all its functions are based in the law, and it will continue business as usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Trump could try to target the seven-member board that oversees the Trust. The president appoints six members, and while the law doesn’t explicitly give the president the power to remove any of the board members before their four-year terms are up, Owen said that so far, the Trump administration’s position has been to act as though it has removal authority of any executive branch official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, though, the courts will decide. Owen said they have not interpreted the Constitution as granting broad removal powers. He added that even if Trump replaced board members, they would still be bound by the Presidio Trust Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The board is still going to have the same statutory mandate, which includes not developing in areas that aren’t already developed and acting in accordance with the mission of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and its governing law,” he told KQED in an interview. “And so if the proposal is to do things like perhaps change, the amount of revenue brought in from leases or the maintenance schedules for the buildings, yeah, stuff like that can change. But there’s no authority to fundamentally change the way that the Presidio is managed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Some workers were told low performance was the grounds for their dismissal despite receiving excellent performance reviews, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/federal-workers-were-fired-for-performance-their-records-say-otherwise-2025-02-20/\">documents seen by Reuters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These layoffs, experts said, leave Californians at greater \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027096/trump-wants-states-to-clean-up-forests-to-stop-wildfires-but-his-administration-cut-off-funds\">risk of fire on federal lands\u003c/a> and will delay mitigation projects designed to protect communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riva Duncan, a longtime Forest Service manager and fire chief who is now retired, said there was “no doubt” communities near federal lands would be less prepared going into the 2025 fire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firing of thousands of federal workers is part of the Trump administration’s plan to dramatically \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024788/suspicion-anger-grow-among-california-federal-employees-over-trumps-resignation-proposal\">scale back the size of the federal government\u003c/a>. The orders were meant to exclude firefighters, but many of those Forest Service workers who were laid off were trained and qualified in wildland firefighting and would step in as backup firefighters on crews or engines when fires got intense and resources were stretched thin, providing surge capacity. If firefighting units — such as an engine or the elite ground crews known as hotshots — are not fully staffed, they can’t be assigned to a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990788\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990788\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A U.S. Forest Service firefighter sets a controlled burn as the Post Fire burns through Castaic, California, on June 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(DAVID SWANSON/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They are instrumental in providing fire support to the crews,” said Duncan, who is now vice president of Grassroots Wildland Firefighters, an advocacy group for federal firefighters. “But also, if their own forest or national park has fires any time of the year, that’s who’s there. 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We don’t know who’s going to be able to do that work [now].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the Los Angeles firestorm of early January, Elon Musk blamed the destruction of homes in part on the lack of fire breaks and brush clearing in messages posted on his social media platform X.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021125 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/IMG_7960-scaled-e1736446701514.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump has said Musk is in \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-appears-contradict-white-house-says-elon-musk-charge-doge-2025-02-20/\">charge of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE — the newly created initiative leading the push to do away with large swaths of the federal government —\u003c/a> though White House court filings have said he is an advisor with no power to make decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forest Service biologist Ben Vizzachero was one of those professionals who helped get mitigation projects done, indirectly, who no longer has a job. He learned first via a phone call from his supervisor that his job would be cut as part of DOGE’s trimming effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A big part of my work was making sure a project complied with the law,” said Vizzachero, who was recently hired at the Los Padres National Forest and was still in the agency’s one-year probationary period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Biology can be the bottleneck preventing projects from going forward,” Vizzachero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had been working on several community wildfire protection plans designed to foresee and mitigate fire risk, including plans for Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Monterey. He handed that work over to a biologist on staff who still has their job but who already had a full plate of other projects. The result, he said, is that the plan will move slower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vizzachero said he was drawn to a career in public service because it’s a way to help people and the natural world. Personal stories from other federal workers have echoed this sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954241\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954241\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Forest Service crew feeds foliage into a wood chipper in the woods.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Forest Service crew members put tree branches into a wood chipper as they prepare the area for a prescribed burn in the Tahoe National Forest on June 6, 2023, near Downieville, Sierra County. \u003ccite>(Godofredo A. 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Vizzachero noted that even the relatively low-paid workers who emptied trash cans and cleaned up campgrounds had been fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another concern for the fire season is that hiring has been put on pause for permanent and seasonal positions, although the Forest Service signaled that seasonal hiring will be allowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackie Rappaport, a firefighter volunteering in Yosemite National Park, hoped to get hired into either a seasonal or permanent position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They got word today seasonal positions got approved, which is great,” Rappaport said, speaking on Thursday from the site of a pile burn in Foresta, north of El Portal. “But the [permanent positions] are still up in the air and nobody has any idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the applicants for seasonal positions might not be able to accept their positions, she noted, because they applied many months ago for these jobs and may have taken other ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if they get every seasonal [position filled] here, there’s pretty large staffing issues,” she said, estimating there were a dozen permanent positions open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the engines still can’t operate at the level they’re supposed to be able to because there’s no one filling those roles,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riva Duncan, a longtime Forest Service manager and fire chief who is now retired, said there was “no doubt” communities near federal lands would be less prepared going into the 2025 fire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firing of thousands of federal workers is part of the Trump administration’s plan to dramatically \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024788/suspicion-anger-grow-among-california-federal-employees-over-trumps-resignation-proposal\">scale back the size of the federal government\u003c/a>. The orders were meant to exclude firefighters, but many of those Forest Service workers who were laid off were trained and qualified in wildland firefighting and would step in as backup firefighters on crews or engines when fires got intense and resources were stretched thin, providing surge capacity. If firefighting units — such as an engine or the elite ground crews known as hotshots — are not fully staffed, they can’t be assigned to a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990788\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990788\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A U.S. Forest Service firefighter sets a controlled burn as the Post Fire burns through Castaic, California, on June 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(DAVID SWANSON/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They are instrumental in providing fire support to the crews,” said Duncan, who is now vice president of Grassroots Wildland Firefighters, an advocacy group for federal firefighters. “But also, if their own forest or national park has fires any time of the year, that’s who’s there. So those are the people who help them out on their local units when there’s a fire or prescribed burn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the effect on fire response, Duncan said, mitigation work that is done ahead of fires will also be slowed. Projects like fire breaks, vegetation removal or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021125/la-fires-renew-debate-over-prescribed-burns-and-fire-preparedness-in-california\">prescribed burning\u003c/a> can save lives and homes when a fire breaks out, but they must be done legally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The agencies have to go through the environmental analysis process dictated by law,” Duncan said. “And a lot of these folks are the ones doing that work — the archeologists, for example. And so they’re doing all that planning before a match hits the ground or a chipper starts chipping. We don’t know who’s going to be able to do that work [now].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the Los Angeles firestorm of early January, Elon Musk blamed the destruction of homes in part on the lack of fire breaks and brush clearing in messages posted on his social media platform X.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He learned first via a phone call from his supervisor that his job would be cut as part of DOGE’s trimming effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A big part of my work was making sure a project complied with the law,” said Vizzachero, who was recently hired at the Los Padres National Forest and was still in the agency’s one-year probationary period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Biology can be the bottleneck preventing projects from going forward,” Vizzachero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had been working on several community wildfire protection plans designed to foresee and mitigate fire risk, including plans for Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Monterey. He handed that work over to a biologist on staff who still has their job but who already had a full plate of other projects. The result, he said, is that the plan will move slower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vizzachero said he was drawn to a career in public service because it’s a way to help people and the natural world. Personal stories from other federal workers have echoed this sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954241\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954241\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Forest Service crew feeds foliage into a wood chipper in the woods.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Forest Service crew members put tree branches into a wood chipper as they prepare the area for a prescribed burn in the Tahoe National Forest on June 6, 2023, near Downieville, Sierra County. \u003ccite>(Godofredo A. 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"content": "\u003cp>The National Park Service website exploring the history and significance of the Stonewall Uprising has been stripped of any mention of transgender people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The page was also updated to remove the “T” from the previously used acronym “LGBTQ+” — now, referring to the community as either “LGB” or “LGBQ.” References to the word “queer” have also been removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When describing the Stonewall Uprising, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/ston/learn/education/new-index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the website now reads:\u003c/a> “Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal, but the events at the Stonewall Inn sparked fresh momentum for the LGB civil rights movement!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not immediately clear who called for the change. But it’s seen as the latest pushback on the transgender community by the federal government since President Trump took office. Over the past month, the Trump administration has issued executive orders to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eliminate the idea of a “gender identity”\u003c/a> separate from sex and to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/05/nx-s1-5282137/trump-transgender-sports-executive-order\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ban transgender athletes\u003c/a> from participating in women’s sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This decision to erase the word ‘transgender’ is a deliberate attempt to erase our history and marginalize the very people who paved the way for many victories we have achieved as a community,” the Stonewall Inn and the Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative said in a joint statement.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11989910,news_11964027,arts_13960471\"]Timothy Leonard, the Northeast program manager for the National Parks Conservation Association, a group that advocates for the National Park System and pushed for the Stonewall monument, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/6779-parks-group-responds-to-removal-of-transgender-contributions-at-stonewall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said\u003c/a>, “Erasing letters or webpages does not change the history or the contributions of our transgender community members at Stonewall or anywhere else. History was made here and civil rights were earned because of Stonewall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Park Service did not respond to NPR’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1969, a gay bar in New York City called the Stonewall Inn was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/06/730444495/nypd-commissioner-apologizes-for-oppressive-1969-raid-on-stonewall-inn\">raided by police\u003c/a>, igniting fierce riots and protests that lasted through the night and into the following days. This came after years of raids, beatings and arrests endured by LGBTQ individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Stonewall Uprising was not the first push for LGBTQ equality in the United States, it is regarded as a turning point in sparking a nationwide movement for the equal treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those who played a central role in the struggle were transgender activists, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/02/03/802392326/new-york-state-to-rename-brooklyn-park-after-trans-activist-marsha-p-johnson\">Marsha P. Johnson\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/04/08/473525644/sylvia-rivera-a-forgotten-hero-of-the-stonewall-riots\">Sylvia Rivera\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027275\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1091\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1536x1047.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American gay liberation activist Marsha P. 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Rivera has been credited to have thrown the second Molotov cocktail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the years following Stonewall, Johnson and Rivera founded a group to help homeless trans youth in New York City called \u003ca href=\"https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/gay-power-is-trans-history-street-transvestite-action-revolutionaries\">Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries\u003c/a>, or STAR. Rivera also fought to \u003ca href=\"https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sylvia-rivera\">ensure transgender people were included\u003c/a> in the victories achieved by the gay-rights movement, like the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was less than a decade ago, in 2016, when the Stonewall Inn was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/06/24/483385747/obama-names-lgbt-landmark-as-national-monument\">designated a national monument by President Barack Obama\u003c/a> — becoming the first U.S. landmark dedicated to LGBTQ rights and history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A protest organized by the Stonewall Inn staff and local LGBTQ groups is scheduled at the Stonewall National Monument on Friday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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History was made here and civil rights were earned because of Stonewall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Park Service did not respond to NPR’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1969, a gay bar in New York City called the Stonewall Inn was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/06/730444495/nypd-commissioner-apologizes-for-oppressive-1969-raid-on-stonewall-inn\">raided by police\u003c/a>, igniting fierce riots and protests that lasted through the night and into the following days. This came after years of raids, beatings and arrests endured by LGBTQ individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Stonewall Uprising was not the first push for LGBTQ equality in the United States, it is regarded as a turning point in sparking a nationwide movement for the equal treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those who played a central role in the struggle were transgender activists, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/02/03/802392326/new-york-state-to-rename-brooklyn-park-after-trans-activist-marsha-p-johnson\">Marsha P. Johnson\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/04/08/473525644/sylvia-rivera-a-forgotten-hero-of-the-stonewall-riots\">Sylvia Rivera\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027275\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1091\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1536x1047.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American gay liberation activist Marsha P. 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For high-priority trees, blankets were used to help cover those scars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fire blankets have been used for a long time to protect structures,” Brigham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We basically told the fire crews to treat all our special sequoias like they were buildings and wrap them all up, and rake all the litter away and roll away the heavy logs,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/sequoias-wrapped-knp-complex-fire-trnd/index.html\">Brigham told CNN\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>It’s not all about the aluminum\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The shiny fire blankets have attracted a lot of attention, but they’re not the only tool firefighters are using to protect the ancient sequoias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Work crews have also been moving duff — decaying organic matter on the forest floor — away from the trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want that duff catching on fire and smoldering long term at the base of those trees,” Wallace said, adding that it could “start cooking the roots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s really what’s going to hurt them,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The extraordinary steps are being taken to protect the trees, Wallace added, because of the intense dry conditions in the forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with those measures, firefighting crews have been digging fire lines and conducting protective burns in some areas near trees, lodges and other structures in the park. Aircraft have also been able to fly over the area, dropping to help limit or put out flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SequoiaKingsNPS/videos/1898422660331986\">Sprinklers were also used “pretty much nonstop”\u003c/a> to protect the museum and other buildings near General Sherman, Wallace said on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Access has also been key. In the area of the Giant Forest, firefighters were able to use walking paths to combat the nearing blaze. 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They hope to use prescribed burns and other tools to make them more fire-resistant. But to move quickly, huge challenges remain. 5/ \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/OAYAM3eqIY\">pic.twitter.com/OAYAM3eqIY\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Lauren Sommer (@lesommer) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/lesommer/status/1438918925748609030?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Sequoias can live for thousands of years — some of the specimens in the 68 groves along the Sierra Nevada’s western flank have been alive for more than 3,200 years. These trees have lived through fires before, but officials are concerned by recent wildfires’ frequency and intensity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Castle Fire in 2020 killed up to 14% of the large sequoias in the Sierra Nevada area, totaling up to 10,600 of the trees, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/preliminary-estimates-of-sequoia-mortality-in-the-2020-castle-fire.htm\">early estimates\u003c/a>. 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Crews are battling the fire, comprised of the spreading Paradise and Colony Fires, which have consumed 11,400 acres of forest since they were sparked by lightning a week ago. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. 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