Crushed dreams, search-and-rescue teams reportedly asking for volunteers, and outraged community leaders are just some of the fallout in the wake of the Trump administration's firing of 1,000 National Park Service employees and thousands more from the U.S. Forest Service.

Angela Moxley, a botanist and biological technician, was ten days shy from ending her probationary period with the Park Service when she got her termination notice.

"I received an email on my work computer that I was being 'separated from federal service' because I have 'failed to demonstrate fitness or qualification for continued employment,'" she wrote Saturday on her LinkedIn account. "I had been waiting for the email, because six of my colleagues had already received theirs. I had earned a high performance rating at my annual evaluation, I was recently asked to serve on a subject matter expert hiring panel, and my supervisor disagrees with the decision and didn't have anything to do with it."

At Zion National Park, staff reportedly alerted professional SAR responders who assist the park's rangers on rescues to say "SAR is currently volunteer only for non-NPS employees. Administratively determined hiring is currently on hold. Callout requests will proceed as normal, and all members are encouraged to respond to callout requests on a volunteer basis when available."

That directive could delay response times, particularly if some of the park's SAR rangers are on vacation.

"I have done 12+ hour SARs," one community responder told the Traveler. "There were times that it was a struggle to find enough people and this will only make it worse."

A call Saturday to the park's public affairs staff was not immediately returned, nor was an email to Zion Superintendent Jeff Bradybaugh.

Meanwhile, communities affiliated with The Mountain Pact, an organization that works with local elected officials in more than 100 mountain communities across the West, sent out a blistering release urging Interior Secretary Doug Burgum "to stop playing politics with America’s public lands and reverse these irresponsible and short-sighted actions.”

"The professional staff who support our public lands are charged with caring for some of our nation’s most precious resources and making sure the millions of Americans who visit them each year can do so safely," said Anna Peterson, executive director of the organization. "President Trump’s irresponsible and short-sighted purge of these staffers puts Western communities — which rely on healthy, well-managed public lands for economic stability, outdoor recreation, and cultural vitality — at risk. We urge Secretary Burgum and President Trump to stop playing politics with America’s beloved public lands.”

At Mammoth Lakes, California, close to Devils Postpile National Monument and Yosemite National Park, Town Council Member John Wentworth said his community “is a gateway to the Eastern Sierra, one of thousands of landscapes nationwide that define who we are as Americans. We are a vital partner to the federal government; we work together to steward the public lands that are every American’s birthright and the source of our rural economy.

"Will this new administration recklessly break these partnerships just to defile treasured landscapes?" he wondered. "Small towns and rural counties throughout the nation that depend on public lands for our economies deserve to know — what is this vision being so jealously guarded and recklessly pursued? Our constituents and the millions of visitors that we serve not only want to know, they are insisting.”

Back on LinkedIn, Moxley despaired over what the firings will do to the parks.

"I can't even begin to fathom how these actions will reverberate throughout all corners of our society. But I do have a pretty good idea what will happen to our national parks — America's best idea. Without staff, the National Park Service will be unable to carry out its 100+-year mandate to leave the parks unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations," she wrote. "This is a mission that my colleagues and I take seriously. We work for far less pay than we could in the private sector, and we spend many, many years working our way up the career ladder because we are passionate about serving our country by protecting public lands.

"Yes, there will be long lines at the parks' fee booths, closed visitor centers, overflowing toilets, and poop on the trails, but there will also be severely impaired natural and cultural resources," she added. "This is happening at a time when we need public lands more than ever, to provide breathing room and landscape connectivity for wildlife who are losing habitat everywhere, to protect rare species, to preserve biodiversity, and to provide everyone with a measure of resilience in the face of climate change.

"The benefits that our parks provide are irreplaceable."

Others also used LinkedIn to vent their frustrations with the dismissals.

Jacob B. was an attorney for the Interior Department, working with judges to deal with public grazing cases, federal royality disputes, and mining violations.

"Not only is this work critical to ensure proper and fair use of our nation's natural resources," he wrote, "but it is MANDATED by numerous statutes. My colleagues and I are not lazy. We are not 'low productivity.' We are reliable, trustworthy, and we strive for excellence depsite what an unnamed OPM representative told us. We are all Americans devoted to serving our country and our fellow Americans.

"The politically motivated and illegal terminations within the Depatment of Interior, and specifically my office, is a direct assault on the statutory rights of private citizens to receive hearings and present appeals of federal agency decisions," he added. "This includes ranchers who raise our country's food supply, natural resource companies who provide power and jobs, and private citizens who recreate and hunt our public lands."

Brian Gibbs was a ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa who educated visitors on the history of the Native American burial mounds there. 

"Without any type of formal notice my position was ripped out from under my feet at 4 p.m. on Friday," he wrote in an essay posted elsewhere. "Before I could fully print off my government records, I was locked out of my email and unable to access my personal and professional records."

Along with citing his myiad roles — "I am the toilet scrubber and soap dispenser, I am the open trail hiked by people from all walks of life, I am the highlight of your child's school day, I am the Band-aid for a skinned knee, I am the lesson that showed your children that we live in a worl of gifts -- not commodities, that gratitude and reciprocity are the doorway to true abundance, not power, money, or fear I am the one who taught your kid the thrush's song and the hawk's cry" — Gibbs added that, "I am gone from the office, I am the resistance, but mostly I'm just tired.

"I am tired from weeks of being bullied and censored by billionaires. I am tired of waking up every morning at 2 a.m. wondering how I cam going to provide for my family if I lose my job. I am tired of wiping away my wife's tears and reassuring her that things will be okay for our growing family.

"Things are not okay. I am not okay."