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From: PBS
“Threats and assaults against federal employees working in the wilderness were on the rise, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit group…
From: High Country News
“Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, thinks sexual harassment is a symptom of a larger dysfunction at national…
From: Ammoland
“According to PEER, in 2012 reported assault incidents rose more than 40% in wildlife refuges and in areas patrolled by the U.S. Park Police, and by more than 12% in…
From: Washington Post
“Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a watchdog group that has called on the Park Service to dismiss several employees…
From: WDEF.com
“The group gathered responses from 104 out of 302 managers of the Fish and Wildlife Service’s federal refuge and 364 employees of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM),…
Understaffing Aggravated by Interior Department Diverting Officers, Money & Training
Two Deaths and 98 Attacks in 2002, NPS Assailed for Ignoring Growing Trend
Violence Against Forest Service, BLM and Wildlife Staff Rises for Third Straight Year
Employee Group Asks DA to Take Action
Forest Service Violence More Than Doubled in 2001