Finding housing for National Park seasonal employees is hard enough in any normal year, but this is no normal year. Jeremy Barnum, Grand Teton National Park’s Chief of Staff says required distancing has increased that challenge exponentially.
Barnum said, “A lot of our seasonal employees typically are in group housing that includes a lot of people, and that kind of housing just isn’t conducive to your appropriate social distancing measures that we’re all trying to follow in our lives, so that has been a big part of what we’re looking at over the summer.”
Barnum says each summer, Grand Teton employs approximately 200 seasonal employees and a number of volunteers. Housing at this time will have to assure it is possible to isolate them if the need arises.
