Chaos is spreading across our national parks, said Maxine Joselow and Andrea Sachs in The Washington Post. The Trump administration fired about 1,000 National Park Service employees in February, and the agency’s 433 national parks, historic sites, and attractions are already feeling the pain.

From Acadia in Maine to Joshua Tree in Southern California, protesters turned out to stand up against what they see as threats to public lands.

As a steady stream of people marched through Yosemite National Park, homemade signs held high over their heads, they echoed a single unifying message: “Protect our parks.”

Around 40 people — many of them Glacier Bay National Park employees — turned out at the protest in downtown Gustavus on Saturday.

The turmoil comes at a critical time as millions of visitors are expected at Massachusetts national parks this year,

At least five national parks, monuments and forests in Arizona were expected to see protesters objecting to federal layoffs and budget cuts.

In a coordinated nationwide rally on March 1, thousands turned up to national parks sites around the US to protest the recent firings of up to a thousand probationary workers with the National Parks Service (NPS) and thousands of Forest Service employees.