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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGarbage, feces take toll on national parks amid shutdown
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER AND JOCELYN GECKER, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON Jan 1, 2019, 1:20 AM ET
Human feces, overflowing garbage, illegal off-roading and other damaging behavior in fragile areas were beginning to overwhelm some of the West's iconic national parks on Monday, as a partial government shutdown left the areas open to visitors but with little staff on duty.
"It's a free-for-all," Dakota Snider, 24, who lives and works in Yosemite Valley, said by telephone Monday, as Yosemite National Park officials announced closings of some minimally supervised campgrounds and public areas within the park that are overwhelmed.
"It's so heartbreaking. There is more trash and human waste and disregard for the rules than I've seen in my four years living here," Snider said.
The 10th day of the partial federal government shutdown, which has forced furloughs of hundreds of thousands of federal government employees, has left many parks without most of the rangers and others who staff campgrounds and otherwise keep parks running.
"It's a free-for-all," Dakota Snider, 24, who lives and works in Yosemite Valley, said by telephone Monday, as Yosemite National Park officials announced closings of some minimally supervised campgrounds and public areas within the park that are overwhelmed.
"It's so heartbreaking. There is more trash and human waste and disregard for the rules than I've seen in my four years living here," Snider said.
The 10th day of the partial federal government shutdown, which has forced furloughs of hundreds of thousands of federal government employees, has left many parks without most of the rangers and others who staff campgrounds and otherwise keep parks running.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/national-parks-dealing-vandals-human-waste-shutdown-60095935
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Garbage, feces take toll on national parks amid shutdown (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Jan 2019
OP
Notice Shitler has ordered the parks to say open so his cult can go in and lay waste to them
workinclasszero
Jan 2019
#4
True Dough
(17,313 posts)1. Feces has also been taking a toll
on the White House, but that's gone on for about two years now.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)4. Notice Shitler has ordered the parks to say open so his cult can go in and lay waste to them
This is your government under fascism.
Trump is a vandal and a destroyer.
Mendocino
(7,497 posts)5. I wonder how the parks of Utah
and others are doing. Unsupervised looting for native artifacts?
lindysalsagal
(20,712 posts)2. Deplorables hoping this is the new "normal."
We are a horrendous species.
Iggo
(47,561 posts)6. Almost like those restrooms are there for a reason.
OnDoutside
(19,962 posts)7. 10 days and the whole place is gone to Trump.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)8. Close them all. Animals are cleaner and won't ruin their habitat.
Those damn dirty humans spoil everything.
As a former NPS ranger, I have to agree.