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.
So my ability to visit Yellowstone National Park is at the whim of the fucking Republicans.
As the Founding Fathers intended
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.
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For that we don’t need to get rid of federal land, we need the Right to Roam over private property without getting arrested.
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I don’t they they intended for like ten elected nazis to withhold the paychecks of like 3 million people
It cannot be repeated too much: vote vote vote.
No Fat Bear Week? They’ve gone too far.
ive always thought fat bear week was superior to shark week
What will the fat bears do?!
How can a national park be ‘closed’? Do they build a giant wall around them in the great 'merica to isolate the nature inside? Do they make you pay for a ticket like in an amusement park?
The rangers go home. If there are gates, they close them.
And trash stops getting picked up and the bathrooms are locked, so you can imagine what happens when people go in anyway.
Why you downvoting this guy? I was wondering too how closing a national park works 🤔
Oh no what ever shall we do.
