National Parks struggle with up to $11 million in revenue loss from shutdown

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

An internal email sent to National Park Service (NPS) staff reveals for the first time that the parks lost between $10 million and $11 million during the 35-day partial government shutdown, which left a number of popular parks open but furloughed most rangers and staff.

The email strongly suggests the shutdown and its aftermath had a detrimental effect on the morale of park staff, and that lawyers are looking into whether it was legal for the Department of Interior to use “rec fees” to pay for maintenance and trash collection while parks such as Joshua Tree in California were kept open.

Parks resumed operations this past week, and the email makes clear the Park Service is scrambling to keep up morale while catching up on lost time.

“Our work has become increasingly stressful. For some, the shutdown was a much-needed relief, for others the shutdown added a new dimension of stress, anxiety, anger,” NPS regional fee manager Cindy David told Pacific West Region staff in an emailed two-part document Friday.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/428217-national-parks-struggle-with-up-to-11-million-in-revenue-loss-from

[democratisphere]

1. drumpf is a shuffling disater that destroys everything he comes in contact with.

Wonder what the jerk has in store when Nancy Pelosi won't give him his wallchamacallit ?!

[Lars39]

2. And that's on top of the parks being told to spend their money during the shutdown,

leaving a lot of parks unable to pay for cleanup.

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. Scumbag republicans

[matt819]

4. I think there's an equivalent

It’s almost as if the national parks are funded week to week and can’t continue to function if the money stops flowing. Sound familiar? Of course, as with humans, republicans don’t give a fuck about national parks either.

Regardless of how congress may be funded differently from the executive branch, any future shutdown must stop all pay, allowances, and travel for all members of Congress.

[ffr]

5. Brought to you by the divide and conquer party.

Don't support anything a KGOP ass-wipe tells you. We have 24 months of 'look the other way' credits, compliments of anti-constitutionalist, Mitch McConnell. I say we double that, so that repugs feel the burn for double what they've made us endure.