Voices of Experience, Supporting the Protection of America's National Parks

CNPSR member Warren Bielenberg recently served as PIO (public information officer) on the NPS spill response. Here, Warren (in blue shirt) watches in July as a turtle team moves loggerhead eggs and a few hatchlings from their nest on Gulf Island to a waiting FedEx truck -- the first leg of their journey to safety at Cape Canaveral N.S. About a dozen CNPSR members have worked on the NPS incident response team. For more about the ongoing NPS response, visit nps.gov/guis or nps.gov/aboutus/oil-spill-response.htm or TWEET SouthEastNPS.

About the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees (CNPSR): In May, 2003, at a press conference in Washington, DC, three former high-ranking National Park Service (NPS) employees spoke out against actions being taken by political leaders that were having detrimental effects on the National Park System. At the same time, a letter voicing similar concerns and signed by twenty NPS retirees was sent to President Bush and Interior Secretary Norton.

Since that time, almost 800 former NPS employees, many of whom were senior managers of the agency, have joined the Coalition to support the mission of the National Park System and the employees who carry it out. We have developed this website as a way to voice our concerns about legislative and policy decisions that we feel diminish the values and purposes for which the National Park System was established, and to help educate the American public about those values and purposes.