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Mark Pocan: “We had lost over 100 leadership positions and 2400 fewer…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Congressman Mark Pocan's Podcast on National Parks with Emily from the Coalition to Protect America's National Parks

Published | Video Starts at 14:46

And visitation is climbed, and it's probably going to keep going up unless things get bad and then it goes down and then everybody's going to suffer. Yeah. I also heard on staffing that We had lost over 100 leadership positions and 2400 fewer overall staff [in the National Park Service]. Are those numbers kind of what you're tracking? Because I think that's what I saw somewhere. And I also saw the Washington Post found a document talking about how the Department of Interior was talking about letting one out of four employees go. (14:46–14:55)

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