Majority of national parks will close and annual Fat Bear Week canceled if government shuts down, Biden admin warns
cnn.com
The National Park Service is warning that it will close most US national parks if Congress fails to come to an agreement to avoid a government shutdown this weekend, and a popular social media campaign celebrating fat bears will be canceled.
The parks will close as the agency applies lessons learned from previous shutdowns to its closure plans.
“In the event of a lapse in the annual government appropriations, National Park Service sites will be closed. The parks depend on Congress and appropriations to pay staff salaries and keep the parks running. This means that the majority of national parks will be closed completely to public access,” a senior administration official said.
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I don't think the founding fathers intended that the federal government own this much land.
Yes, land should be owned by private people to do with as they please. If I want to pave over Yellowstone and put up a strip mall by god that's my right as an American, provided I've got enough money.
Founding Father Thomas Jefferson literally bought the land Yellowstone sits on.
(Well, most of it, anyway -- it looks like part of the park straddles the boundary between the Louisiana Purchase and the Oregon Territory?)
I don't they they intended for like ten elected nazis to withhold the paychecks of like 3 million people