"National Parks: Yellowstone Crew Sexually Harassed Female Workers — IG"

"A Yellowstone National Park repair crew engaged in sexual harassment, drunkenness and crude comments on the job, an internal government watchdog said today.

Interior Department Office of Inspector General investigators 'found credible evidence that male supervisors and staff in the Maintenance Division unit created a work environment that included unwelcome and inappropriate comments and actions toward women,' the IG said in a report.

The hostile work environment has persisted for a decade or more 'because of the actions, or inaction, of supervisors,' according to the report, which was based on interviews with over 100 current or former Yellowstone employees and hundreds of documents. 'Specifically, the Maintenance Division supervisor should have known about and addressed some of the alleged misconduct.'

The supervisor, who like all Yellowstone officials other than Superintendent Dan Wenk was unnamed in the report, previously led the unit until he was promoted in the mid-2000s. Since that time, it has been without a permanent boss."

Corbin Hiar reports for Greenwire April 12, 2017.