'Visitor confusion': Popular California parks under strain from staff cuts
Briefly

Due to staffing shortages caused by recent job offers being rescinded and mass firings, the National Park Service has announced limits on ranger programs and visitor center hours at Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks. With a significant decrease in staff, crucial visitor services have been affected, leading to confusion among guests. The parks are still seeing record numbers of visitors, raising concerns over resource management and visitor safety as the workforce continues to dwindle.
A lot of people, they just come to the park, and they don't know really what to do, so they come to the visitor center, and that's where they get their information.
They could start to see resource damage where there's additional amounts of garbage, where there might be vehicles driving where they should not, rare and sensitive plants getting killed.
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