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Anonymous National Park Service Employees Speak of Broad Discontent

 

They showed up for a news conference at the National Press Building

cloaked in dark glasses, hats, and scarves, used a voice disguiser,

and hid behind a thick curtain. But they weren't mafia informants or

witnesses in a spy case; they were longtime employees of the National

Park Service speaking out against the Bush administration for

"enacting policies and laws that will destroy the grand legacy of our

national parks," as one put it. Although the anonymous critics were

just two of the NPS's 17,000 employees, a recent survey by the

Campaign to Protect America's Lands suggests widespread unhappiness

within the agency. Of 1,361 respondents, 84 percent expressed a

"great deal of concern" about the effect of current policies on

national parks, 59 percent said the situation had worsened over the

last few years, and 79 percent said morale had declined over the same

period. CPAL recruited the two anonymous Park Service employees to

present the results of the survey at the conference after trying

unsuccessfully to convince employees to speak openly.

 

straight to the source: Los Angeles Times, Elizabeth Shogren, 14 Nov 2003

<http://www.gristmagazine.com/forward.pl?forward_id=1723>

 

from the Grist archives: Gag me -- a week in the life of Jeff Ruch,

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility

<http://www.gristmagazine.com/week/ruch121100.stm?source=daily>

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