The CEO of the National Parks Conservation Association says the directive from President Trump will impact 34 facilities nationwide. San Antonio is no exception.

They range from national memorials to national seashores. The National Park Service says they are all often referred to as parks, but only 63 have "National Park" in their name, like Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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"Quite simply and astonishingly, this is dismantling the National Park Service as we know it, ranger by ranger and brick by brick." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO

The U.S. Department of the Interior said no parks are expected to close in the summer, but park rangers warned of reduced hours and services.

At the direction of the president, Elon Musk and his team are firing federal workers at a breakneck pace. This week, some 6,000 employees are expecting termination notices at the IRS along with more than 5,

Nearly 332 million people visited America's national parks last year, a record high. That popularity hasn't shielded the agency from the Elon Musk team's purge of the federal workforce.

Fired U.S. National Forest and National Parks employees are speaking out about the mass layoffs by the Trump administration.

On Valentine’s Day, the White House and its Department of Government Efficiency fired thousands of new and career federal employees, excluding military personnel and postal workers. Four employees at Camp Nelson National Monument in Jessamine County were fired,

Riley Rackliffe stared at the ceiling of his home and weighed the pros and cons of the federal government’s severance package offer. The government offered