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Watchdog groups led by former Park Service employees say the government shutdown has worsened the funding and environmental crisis at national parks.
NPR's Kirk Sigler reports the Trump administration ordered most national parks to stay open with a skeleton's death.
Thousands of furloughed National Park Service employees are now returning to work after the 43-day shutdown.
Many entrance gates at parks remained open but unstaffed.
One estimate by watchdog groups predicts the service may have lost upwards of $40 million in entrance fee revenue.
This is a big deal
because it follows cuts to the agency ordered by President Trump and his Doge team
since January the Park Service lost a quarter of its entire staff from scientists to janitors to rangers.
Meanwhile,
the return of the remaining staff is seen as a relief following reports of vandalism of artifacts at Arches National Park in Utah,
base jumpers off El Capitan at Yosemite and damaged to a stone wall at historic Gettysburg.
Kirk Sigler, NPR News.
The House is moving ahead with a vote to release all files from the investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Republican leaders have agreed to bring it to the floor after a petition reached the required 218 signatures.