The former superintendents of Yellowstone, Rushmore, Badlands national parks say DOGE wiped out a generation of leaders.

If Dan Wenk had been fired during his first year in a permanent job with the National Park Service, the agency would’ve lost his many later accomplishments. He would not have gone on to help ...

If Dan Wenk had been fired during his first year in a permanent job with the National Park Service, the agency would’ve lost his later accomplishments. He would not have gone on to help lead a ...

But in the decades since, much has changed. Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk summed up today’s more expansive view in a recent interview: “Rather than manipulating wildlife to do what we ...

Seth is editor-in-chief of South Dakota Searchlight. He was previously a supervising senior producer for South Dakota Public ...