Three National Park Service employees have been terminated at Colonial National Historical Park and six staffers have been cut from the Outer Banks Group.

Park rangers are crowdsourcing terminations and cataloging the number of National Park Service employees the Trump administration has fired across the country.

The Department of the Interior told USA TODAY it was aware of the "unauthorized and inappropriate" display, which was eventually taken down.

High Desert area residents and climbers hang an American flag upside down in a symbol of distress and protest against federal employee firings at the National Park Service and other agencies at Intersection Rock in Joshua Tree National Park, Calif., on Feb. 28, 2025.

A nonprofit is tallying up how many NPS employees have been let go from each park. A key asset has been social media posts from terminated employees.

After approximately 1,000 firings, followed by a promise to increase seasonal workers, here's where the NPS stands.

The Alt National Park Service was established in 2017, after the real National Park Service was temporarily barred from using social media.

However, the National Park Service topped the list of government agencies seen favorably by U.S. adults, according to a Pew Research study last July, and national parks are widely considered to be among America’s greatest treasures .

At least 700 year-round National Park Service employees have taken buyouts, according to an internal memo obtained by The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. The memo, which was sent on Tuesday,

More than 700 National Park Service staff are quitting to take up the Trump administration's offer to resign now but be paid possibly through September, according to an agency memo.