Hundreds of former NPS staffers say parks should close during shutdown

Hundreds of erstwhile National Park Service (NPS) employees are calling for the nation’s parks to adjacent amid the ongoing authorities shutdown. In a caller missive to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, the erstwhile staffers cited high-profile incidents of illegal jumping astatine Yosemite National Park and a vegetation fire that started astatine a campground astatine Joshua Tree National Park. The more…