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US President Donald Trump's administration is making deep cuts at the National Park Service (NPS), and after firing around 1,000 of its employees last month the White House is now moving to shutter 34 NPS offices across the country by cancelling their leases. Those facilities support visitor centres, law enforcement units, operations staff, museums and climate-controlled artefact storage for national parks from Alaska to Texas and Florida.
Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 11 Mar 2025
US President Donald Trump's administration is making deep cuts at the National Park Service (NPS), and after firing around 1,000 of its employees last month the White House is now moving to shutter 34 NPS offices across the country by cancelling their leases. Those facilities support visitor centres, law enforcement units, operations staff, museums and climate-controlled artefact storage for national parks from Alaska to Texas and Florida.
Among the targeted locations is the San Antonio Missions National Historic Park, the only Unesco World Heritage site in Texas. Theresa Pierno, the president and chief executive of the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), warned in a statement that the loss of staff and of critical facilities "are pushing our parks past the point of no return". She adds: "It is reckless and short-sighted to shutter National Park Service offices without a careful examination of what they protect and the critical staff who work there. These closures will cripple the Park Service’s ability to operate parks safely and will mean millions of irreplaceable artefacts will be left vulnerable or worse, lost. Quite simply and astonishingly, this is dismantling the National Park Service as we know it, ranger by ranger and brick by brick."
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