PJ Media’s Bryan Preston reported Wednesday that the “White
House [is] ordering
hundreds of privately run, private funded parks to close,” using the
government shutdown as an excuse (even though most
federal employees remain on
the job): “Warren Meyer of Phoenix, AZ, is owner and president of Recreation Resource Management, Inc. RRM employs
about 400-500 camp workers and managers across about a dozen states. It is one
of a handful of companies that have been managing national parks and
campgrounds as tenants for years, through previous government shutdowns
including the last one in 1995-1996. Those previous shutdowns never closed any
of the parks managed in this way, but the current shutdown threatens closure.”
But this time, it’s different: “They are shutting all of us down ASAP. Marching
orders straight from the White House,” says
Meyer.
As Preston noted,
“The campgrounds are self-sufficient and receive no federal funding. No
government employees staff or manage the parks. The management companies pay
the National Park Service out of the funds they generate from operating the
thousands of campgrounds. So . . . the shutdown is puzzling to Meyer.” Earlier,
Meyer wrote:...To Read More.....
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