Five National Park Service workers in Gettysburg were among those cut nationwide, resulting in the closure of the new lodging rentals at the park.

Also, workers have lost their jobs at Independence National Historic Park in Philadelphia and Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.

Trump administration efforts to slash federal spending are being felt at the Gettysburg National Military Park. Five probationary workers received termination emails last Friday. Sign up for our Newsletters "I am very angry.

According to a National Parks Service release in 2024, the Bushman farm was used by Confederate General John Bell Hood as a staging ground for his attack, and the Slyder farm was used as a defensive position for Union sharpshooters during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.

When unemployed marine biologist Lanny Flaherty poked his head into the ranger's station at the Wallowa Whitman National Forest in the Pacific Northwest and asked to be a volunteer, he said it put him on a 13-year career path with the U.