Since the 1960s, most employees of the National Park Service have traveled to a storied training facility in Grand Canyon National Park at some point in their early career to learn how to be a park ranger.
The Trump administration is overhauling that rite of passage.
As part of the administration’s effort to consolidate all the administrative functions of Interior Department offices at its headquarters on C Street in Washington, the National Park Service will close its two national training centers, according to the service.
One of those facilities is the Horace M. Albright Training Center on the south rim of the Grand Canyon, where new rangers are taught about the laws and history of the service. The second is the Stephen T. Mather Training Center in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, where career development and technical trainings were held.
