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Brock Wilson
43:56 - 44:30
“we're talking about park rangers, biological science technicians, maintenance mechanics, forestry technicians. These are sort of the jobs that have, you know, direct implications for their particular field for what they were doing.”
- Speaker
- Brock Wilson
- Timestamp
- 43:56 – 44:30
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
From the transcript
To be a little bit more specific, we're talking about park rangers, biological science technicians, maintenance mechanics, forestry technicians. These are sort of the jobs that have, you know, direct implications for their particular field for what they were doing. Okay, so this is broadly what has changed. We've seen a decline in the federal workforce in Alaska over these past 2 years, approximately a 15.8% decline. And this is partly just due to 2 large moving pieces.
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