Oregon’s iconic Crater Lake National Park has lost its top leader.

The park’s superintendent, Kevin Heatley, resigned from overseeing Oregon’s only national park on Friday, citing cuts to parks’ staff.

Since January, Heatley has seen Crater Lake’s permanent workforce cut in half, and onboarding seasonal staff was delayed by a month.

“Things are not OK,” Heatley told OPB on Monday. “This is not a normal situation. This is a paradigm shift that is having repercussions that will last for at least a generation.”

Heatley started his role in January after working for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for about nine years. He moved to the National Parks Service, thinking it would be safe from the type of government shrinking outlined by conservative groups in Project 2025 .

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