Dozens of former park superintendents wrote an open letter this week urging the Trump administration to close national parks to the public if the government is forced to shut down at the end of the month.
Legislators have yet to approve a budget to fund the government beyond Sept. 30, 2025, putting the country at risk of a shutdown starting on Oct. 1, which could cause the temporary closure of the more than 400 national parks spread out across the country. The 16-day shutdown in 2013 caused an estimated $414 million in lost revenue due to the parks closing for the duration.
“As former superintendents of national parks across the country, we write to you with an urgent appeal to protect our parks and public lands by closing them if a government shutdown occurs,” the group wrote in a letter to Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum.
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