Horace M. Albright played a significant role in establishing and maintaining the National Park Service. He served as acting director from 1917-1919 and director from 1929-1933.
Between that time, Albright was superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, which he viewed as the flagship of the National Park Service.
On Friday, one of Albright’s great granddaughters was among 1,000 employees fired by the NPS in compliance with orders from the Trump Administration.
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The layoffs were executed via form email that claimed they were cause-related. In fact, the layoffs involved mostly probationary employees with short work histories and no job protections.
Susan Isaacson, Albright’s grand daughter, is quoted by National Parks Traveler: “My daughter is not ‘waste and fraud.’
“But she was just fired from her National Park Service job on Friday, February 14, Valentine’s Day, ironically, by email, in a heartless and untrue statement that she failed to meet the requirements of the position. Everyone fired got the same message.”
Horace M. Albright. Photo: NPS
Isaacson, who did not disclose her daughter’s name, continued: “Of course this isn’t true. She has only been in the job for two months. Her only failure was having faith in our democracy and the rule of law and legal personnel procedures.”
The layoffs were part of a light-speed effort by the Trump administration to trim the federal work force. The “waste and fraud” justification for layoffs across multiple agencies has been widely disputed.
In the case of the National Park Service, the layoffs are bound to cause a disruption in services during peak spring and summer seasons at parks across the country.
Most visitors to Yellowstone National Park – the nation’s first park, established in 1872 – are familiar with the Albright Visitor Center in Mammoth Hot Springs.
The center operates in a structure that housed Army troops to protect the park in pre-NPS days.
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