Helen Dhue was one of 1,000 National Park Service employees affected by the Trump administration’s federal job cuts. “Parks build community,” she said. “I’m sad to see that that’s being threatened.”

Affected NPS employees reportedly were sent a tersely written form email claiming that they were being fired for cause.

Trump administration guidelines aimed at dramatically shrinking the size of federal government could diminish services across the National Park System "like no other time since WWII," according to a National Park Service veteran who spent decades with the agency.

The U.S. Forest Service is firing around 3,400 recent hires while the National Park Service is terminating about 1,000 under President Donald Trump's push to cut federal spending, people familiar with the plans said on Friday.

It remains unclear how the cuts will affect operations this spring and summer. The NPS is told it can hire seasonal employees.

The National Park Service is the latest agency to remove references to the transgender community in line with President Trump’s executive order mandating that the country only recognize two

The two decisions underscore the confusing — and at times contradictory — nature of the new administration’s efforts to shrink the federal workforce.

A 23-year-old park guide at Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park, Helen Dhue, found out she'd been fired during a layover in Dallas on Friday, on her way home from a National Park Service business trip.