To visit a crowd of people loaded on boats Statue of liberty And Ellis Island On Wednesday morning, with the immediate indication of the government’s shutdown, which is triggering about two-thirds of the furls. National park service Employee.
But in PhiladelphiaTourists, who were enjoying a crisp fall in the morning at the country’s birthplace, freedom mall, were thwarted in their expectations of going to Liberty Bell. They were going to the entrance and could only steal its eyes inside a glass pavilion.
A shutdown contingency scheme released by Park Service late on Tuesday night said, “Park Rhodes, Lookout, Trails and Open-Air Memorials will usually be accessible to visitors.” However, given the rapidly reduced staffing, the parks will be closed during the bandage without “accessible areas”. And currently open sites can be discontinued. If the loss is causing damage to park resources or waste, the plan says.
Nevertheless, with limited information on government websites, questions were being raised on Park Service Social Media sites on Wednesday, people asked if the camp permit would still be good in places like Chacko Culture National Historical Park in Northwestern New Mexico and if Gates would be opened in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.
The scheme says that the furls of about 9,300 park employees mean that the parks remain open, which can only provide limited services such as life, property and public safety, property and public safety, scheme.
In Mississippi, the state’s most visible cultural attraction, Viksburg National Military Park, was discontinued. A non-profit group was trying to fulfill an agreement to reopen it using the funds donated to pay for employees. In Acadia National Park in Main, a park Rangers were not in sight and were hikers in search of trail maps found empty receptacle outside a closed visitor center.
The scheme did not expand that more than 400 sites of the park service are considered inaccessible. Associated Press on Tuesday and Wednesday requested the National Park Service and Interior Department to request more information in email and a telephone call.
Park Seva oversees large national parks such as Yelostone and Grand Canyon, National Battlefield, National Monuments such as Freedom National Historical Park, Liberty Bel’s house, including Statue of Liberty and national monuments such as historical sites. Those attractions often serve as an economic engine for nearby communities.
Many national parks remained open during Trump’s first term during a five -week shutdown. Limited Staffing led barbarity, overflow garbage, damage to natural resources and illegal off-roading.
A group of 40 former National Horticulture Services Superintendents had urged the Trump administration to close the parks during a shutdown to repeat the damage in 2018 and 2019. He warned that a shutdown could now be worse with parks before a shutdown cut 24% staff cuts and serious budget cuts.
During the 2013 shutdown, the Park service under former President Barack Obama removed millions of visitors to more than 400 of its parks, national monuments and other sites. Seva estimated that Shutdown caused more than $ 500 million in lost visitor expenses across the country. This also caused economic loss to the Gateway communities that are highly dependent on the boundary of national parks and the visitors they attract.
The contingency plan allows parks to enter agreements with states, tribes or local governments, which are keen to donate to keep the national park sites open.
In states where the national park major tourism advocates to keep them open during the previous shutdown, and Utah agreed to donate $ 1.7 million in 2013 to keep its national parks open. Arizona, Colorado, New yorkSouth Dakota and Tennessi have also donated money to keep the parks during the last shutdown.
The Governor of Colorado suggested that the state could do this time again for Rocky Mountain National Park. But a spokesman for Arizona Governor said last week that he could not pay to open his national parks including Grand Canian.
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Brown reported from Billings, Montana. Matt Rourke contributed to Philadelphia and Susan Montoya Bryan contributed to Albuquerk