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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Environment
Cassidy Randall

These people protected US forests and lands. Their jobs have now vanished due to Trump

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‘I loved my job because I got to help preserve things that mean something to so many people,’ says former USFS archeologist Erica Dirks. Composite: The Guardian/Getty Images/
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Approximately 5,000 people have been terminated from the agencies that manage the 35m acres (14m hectares) of federal public lands in the US.

These are our lands. They encompass national parks and forests, wilderness and marine protected areas, scenic rivers. They are home to campgrounds, river accesses, hiking trails and myriad other sites and facilities that more than 500 million people visit each year.

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