An offer by the Trump administration to pay federal employees to quit is being viewed suspiciously by some in the National Park Service, with some initial thoughts labeling it a scam.

The National Park Service recently issued a prospectus seeking bids for management of Cedar Pass Lodge, the only lodging facility at Badlands National Park in South Dakota.

A wide array of Interior Department programs, from tribal assistant programs and climate resilience projects to cultural resources management and threatened and endangered species programming, have had their funding frozen by order of the White House budget office.

One of the first Executive Orders from the Trump Whitehouse is to reverse environmental protections for federal lands in Alaska and hasten, expand, and encourage resource development.