Massive job cuts at the National Park Service are paused while contract approval at the U.S. Forest Service is slowing cleaning and maintenance.

A bear that can flip 800-pound dumpsters is euthanized.

Hunting and fishing is expanded in wildlife refuges, and a hiker tells her harrowing tale of being lost for 28 days, surviving on wild leaks and boiled snow. I'm Jason Epperson,

and this is parkography. Coming to you from Yellowstone National Park near the Hayden Valley right now.

It's gorgeous out here. We had a ton of snow over the course of the last 24 hours. It's my last day

in the park. I've seen lots of grizzlies. We've seen a wolf. We've

seen lots of elk. It's been a beautiful time of year to be here from Sad to Leave. We have a lot

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First up, the White House

intends to cut about 1,500 jobs from the National Park Service in the next round of its

reduction in force initiative, according to several reports. We don't know exactly how many

full-time employees are in the National Park Service at this point. The website says over 20,000,

last count was around 18,000. But that was before

this year when at least 1,000 employees have taken deferred resignation offers. Since the inauguration,

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