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The partisan bickering on this site is a real turn-off.
It's 5 percent. Get over it.
According to the FY14 NPS Greenbook, Mount Rainier had a total of 179 FTEs in FY12(ONPS-132). Of those 179 FTEs, 118 were funded by the park's base operating dollars. Mount Rainier's operating budget was $12.2M for FY 2012. The FY12 NPS Greenbook lists Mount Rainier as having 204 FTEs in FY 2010, 118 funded by base ops(ONPS-193).
According to a May 2013 on the Bonny Lake Courier-Herald website, Rainier had a budget of $12.08M for 2012. Of that $12.08M, 5% was for program support(HR & Inventory and Monitoring) that Rainier provided for other parks in the region. So that for FY 2012, Rainier had ~$11.4M for its own operations. The article also states that 78-80% of the base funding is used for personnel and there are 110 permanent positions(12 currently vacant).
Given all this, it seems likely to me that those 40 hires are being funded by something other than the ops budget. I would think that positions funded by other funds would not necessarily be long-term permanent hires despite the impression that the New Tribune article gives.
http://www.nps.gov/aboutus/budget.htm
http://www.blscourierherald.com/news/207134281.html
My wife and I camped at Cataloochee in GRSM this June. I had planned on doing some hikes via the Caldwell Fork Trail, but three of the log bridges had been knocked out by storms. A sign at the trailhead said they would "not be replaced until further notice." I don't know if this was a direct effect of sequestration or budget cuts in general, but it was pretty disappointing.