Following budget cuts and layoffs, national park rangers host a bake sale to take on $1.2 billion deficit

Following budget cuts and layoffs, national park rangers host a bake sale to take on $1.2 billion deficit

Following budget cuts and layoffs, national park rangers host a bake sale to take on $1.2 billion deficit Elizabeth Villano is a former national park ranger who worked for the National Park Service for six years. This year, after the Trump administration conducted mass layoffs in the agency, her contract was not renewed. Although she had posts in various parks and monuments over the years, most recently, Villano was a climate change training ranger, whose duties included helping the NPS create materials to integrate climate science into its operations, land management, and public educational programming.  Elizabeth Villano during her time as a park ranger at the Muir Woods National Monument. Photo courtesy of NPS Photo Now, she’s manning bake sale tables. Last week, Villano represented the advocacy group Resistance Rangers — made up of on- and off-duty national park rangers advocating for the protection of the NPS and public lands — at a bake sale in Denver, Colorado.  She was joined by ano…