Kirk Sigler
speaker
534 appearances
76 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard yesterday
Kirk Sigler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 63 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 14.
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These cuts are real, but many visitors like Nathan Boggs from Minnesota say they aren't seeing any effects or disruptions.
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Traffic on the going to the Sun Road is its usual busy and bathrooms and campgrounds are clean.
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Everything just seems really well taken care of for us.
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But many former Park Service employees and watchdog groups say that's by design.
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Parks like this did end up rehiring some staff and hiring more seasonal rangers so things look normal.
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But they say all the work in the back office, like planning for infrastructure, wildlife studies, and even hiring for next year, is on hold.
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Kirk Ziggler, NPR News, West Glacier, Montana.
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Glacier's permanent staff has been cut by twenty-five percent through firings, buyouts, and President Trump's hiring freeze on all federal agencies.
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These cuts are real, but many visitors like Nathan Boggs from Minnesota say they aren't seeing any effects or disruptions.
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Traffic on the going to the sun road is its usual busy and bathrooms and campgrounds are clean.
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Everything just seems really well taken care of for us.
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But many former Park Service employees and watchdog groups say that's by design.
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Parks like this did end up rehiring some staff and hiring more seasonal rangers so things look normal.
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But they say all the work in the back office, like planning for infrastructure, wildlife studies, and even hiring for next year is on hold.
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Kirk Ziggler in PR News, West Glacier, Montana.
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The National Interagency Fire Center in Idaho has raised its national preparedness level to four, with the top being five, which means all resources are deployed to fires nationwide.
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This is not that unusual for July in the West, but fire managers say continued dry and windy conditions are a concern from western Colorado to Arizona where out of control fires have forced evacuations.
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President Trump's agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, says the Forest Service has the resources it needs and is close to full staffing at more than eleven thousand seasonal wildland firefighters.
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But sources inside the agency say that's not the whole story.
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Trump's doge laid off hundreds of agency staffers who also hold red cards, meaning they deployed fires.
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