Former National Park Service worker offered job back

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- ABC57 has an update on a story that we brought to you almost a month ago, Beth Shrader was fired from her job at the Indiana Dunes National Park in wake of Elon Musk and DOGE’s sweeping layoffs, a number of federal workers are being offered their jobs back, including a former landscape architect for the Indiana Dunes National Park.

Beth Shrader and thousands of other federal employees were let go a few weeks into Donald Trump’s second term and more than a month later and after a federal judge ordered workers be re-hired, the administration is trying to get some employees back, an offer Shrader says she declined. Citing poor communication and a toxic environment as reason why.

She tells us even with some employees deciding to return to their positions the damage might already done and that our national parks may look a little different.