Every year, nearly half a million people pull off the highway on the central Oregon coast to get a good look at Yaquina Head.
Home of the Yaquina Head Lighthouse (the tallest lighthouse in Oregon), as well as a pristine marine habitat and a popular visitor center, the coastal park site managed by the Bureau of Land Management is suddenly under duress after federal layoffs culled a third of its staff.
The Trump administration’s widespread purge of the federal workforce has touched virtually every corner of Oregon, affecting the region’s many national forests and other federal lands — including Yaquina Head…