The Grand Canyon. Joshua Tree. The Great Smoky Mountains.
America’s 85-million-acre National Park System houses some of the nation’s, if not the world’s, most breathtaking natural treasures, drawing 312 million visitors last year alone.
Sites that are physically accessible still will be — but there will be few, if any, staff and services on hand. Even the much-loved “Fat Bear Week” tournament featuring the ever-expanding bears in Alaska’s Katmai National Park will go dark, because employees updating the website will be furloughed, a senior Interior Department official told reporters Thursday.
The closure of hundreds of sites that span all 50 states would pose a significant threat to local economies, mostly in rural areas. And it could generate partisan attacks, with Republicans accusing President Joe Biden of politicizing the park system. Previous shutdowns have shown that fee money “can be successfully utilized to keep public lands open during a lapse in appropriations,” Senator John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican, said in a letter last week.
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