Roughly 100 people gathered in a snowstorm near the east entrance of Rocky Mountain National Park on Monday morning to protest a federal hiring freeze that could imperil park operations.

On Monday, hundreds of people gathered outside Rocky Mountain National Park to protest the reported layoffs of U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service employees that happened on Thursday, as

Colorado had nearly 5,000 employees working for public lands and wildlife agencies before federal employees' terminations hit last week.