The country’s largest employer, the federal government, has laid off tens of thousands of employees since February 14th. It’s ...

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The Painted Canyon Nature Trail overlooks striking coral- and rust-hued badlands ... bridge in the Western Hemisphere. Big Bend National Park is a Texas highlight. After growing up in flat ...

Lydia Jones was working as a permanent lead ranger in Badlands National Park's resource education ... who spent a large portion of her childhood in Texas, near Big Bend National Park and four years as ...

From 1978 through 1986 he was employed as a U.S. National Park Ranger, working for the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, at Badlands ... time admirer of Texas A&M University.

That includes Lydia Jones, who was fired from her first permanent park service job last month at Badlands National Park after working as a seasonal ranger in multiple parks for several years.

The terminations are ongoing, and they include 1,000 National Parks employees, employees like former Park Ranger Lydia Jones, who worked at Badlands National Park in South Dakota. She joins me now.

An internal park service ... two offices in Texas are slated for closure: the San Antonio Missions law enforcement facility and the main office for the Lake Meredith National Recreation Area.