NPR -Three-quarters of the seats on the U.S. National Park Service advisory board are vacant following a mass resignation citing Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's unwillingness to meet with them.
Nine of the panel's 12 members, led by former Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles, handed in their resignations. The bipartisan panel was appointed by President Barack Obama and the terms of all members who quit were set to expire in May.
Knowles, in a letter of resignation to Zinke from himself and the eight other members, said the board had "worked closely and productively through 2016 with dedicated National Park Service employees, an inspiring Director and a fully supportive Department."
Since then, as explained in the letter, the board had repeatedly tried and failed to secure a meeting with the new interior secretary.
"[Our] requests to engage have been ignored and the matters on which we wanted to brief the new Department team are clearly not part of the agenda," the letter reads.
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