Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Daniel Wenk at the National World War II Memorial on the Mall in Washington in 2015. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)The Trump administration issued a stern reply to Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Daniel Wenk’s offer to retire next year to avoid a reassignment to Washington: Leave your post by August or retire now. Wenk’s looming reassignment is one of several ordered by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to fulfill President Trump’s effort to reorganize the federal government. Cameron Sholly, the Park Service director for the Midwest, is said to be in consideration for Wenk’s Yellowstone job, according to a worker at the Park Service who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of losing his job. Accepting a reassignment to Washington from Yellowstone, one of the top jobs in the Park Service, is “not out of the question,” Wenk said.

Source: Washington Post June 07, 2018 19:43 UTC