Changes at Mt Rainier -- road closed Tues, Weds

I drive into Tacoma/Puyallup from Ashford 2 to 3 times a week. Eighty percent of the time I see a law enforcement vehicle driving to or away from the Park well past Clear Lake on Meridian or down below Muck Creek hill on Mountain Highway. This is 365 days a year. Can this be explained?

Drive to White Pass to ski any day of the week and you will see NPS LEOs commuting on US12 (Packwood to Ashford vis Morton & Elbe).

It's curious how this old thread normally adds just a few views per week, but occasionally receives dozens, or even over a hundred, in a few weekday hours.   Is there an access advocacy group forming that I didn't hear about?  Could it be that not all NPS computers have tracking software?  Or that the feds are online-conferencing to plot future closure strategy and update their enemies list?

Either way, as a public service, here's a consolidated list of overlapping and sometimes interconnected TAY threads on the subject of winter access in our local National Parks, arranged mostly in order of decreasing total views and with the major themes added:

Heavy-handed law enforcement 
February 2015
www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboardi...ex.php?topic=33734.0

Paradise Road closed w/o prior notice Mon 11.25 
Closed seven days in a row.  Poor Communication. Inconsistent Avalanche Safety.
www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboardi...ex.php?topic=29757.0

New Record for Mt. Rainier?
Closed 9 consecutive days.  Tram idea.  Civil disobedience.
www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboardi...ex.php?topic=27598.0

MRNP: Bold as brass, up your ...
Muir Toilets.  Visitation.  Budgets & plowing costs.
www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboardi...ex.php?topic=26927.0

Public meeting on Winter Operations, Mt. Rainier
Accounts & reaction from post-closure meetiings.  NPS PR films. Tweet inconsistencies.  Sloughing excuse.
www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboardi...ex.php?topic=26359.0

New Mt. Rainier Policy
Documents climbing concession special access on closed days.
www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboardi...ex.php?topic=28005.0

Mt. Rainier, Longmire-Paradise Road opening matrix
Criticism of management's Paradise winter opening decision tree.
www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboardi...ex.php?topic=24578.0

April 3, 2011, MRNP Road Closed - Eagle Peak Trail
Ski alternatives when Paradise closed.
www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboardi...ex.php?topic=20475.0

MRNP: update on plow operators
Mostly about safety and free map handouts.
www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboardi...ex.php?topic=27438.0

Caveat emptor!!!! Paradise, Mt. Rainier
Minimum snow depth(s) for skiing.
www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboardi...ex.php?topic=25863.0

Mt. Rainier regulations
Chain requirement.
www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboardi...ex.php?topic=26701.0

Business response to MRNP closures & sequester 
www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboardi...ex.php?topic=27904.0

Hiking/Biking Sunrise Road
www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboardi...ex.php?topic=25167.0

Other TAY National Park Access Threads:

Waterhole Cabin- destroyed by ONP
www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboardi...ex.php?topic=25700.0

More ONP BS / Occupy Hurricane
www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboardi...ex.php?topic=24136.0

Mid week Hurricane Ridge closure next winter!
www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboardi...ex.php?topic=23765.0

Expansion of North Cascades National Park
www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboardi...ex.php?topic=16559.0

Edit to add 11-25 thread

Mr Vogtski: did you see in the news paper that Mt. Rainier increased its number of employees this fiscal year by 33.3%?

...did you see in the news paper that Mt. Rainier increased its number of employees this fiscal year by 33.3%?

Whoa!  Wasn't the park claiming a high number of vacant positions last winter?  I wonder if their website's claim of 125 employees includes this increase, or if there are actually 40 new positions...gotta link?    ???

Found Andy's reference near the bottom:
www.thenewstribune.com/2013/08/18/273682...-the-job-market.html

According to this survey, permanent jobs at MRNP increased from 119 to 159 from 2012 to 2013!