National Parks Deal with Damage After Government Shutdown - February 04, 2019

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1. 0:00Many of America's national parks remained open during the country's longest ever government shutdown.
2. 0:10But few had enough national park service employees working to protect the areas
3. 0:17and keep watch of visitors.
4. 0:21Those visitors did a lot of damage in 35 days.
5. 0:26They walked over sensitive lands.
6. 0:30They opened gates while no one was watching.
7. 0:34One person even struck one of California's famous Joshua Trees with a vehicle.
8. 0:42When Park Service employees returned to work last week, they began cleaning up and repairing what they could.
9. 0:52But environmental experts warn that the damage in some places could take years to recover.
10. 1:01Even before the shutdown, national parks faced $12 billion in much needed repair work.
11. 1:09That number has only grown.
12. 1:13Many parks had no employees working during the shutdown.
13. 1:17down. Others had skeleton crews.
14. 1:21Local governments and nonprofit organizations offered money and volunteers during the shutdown,
15. 1:29which began on December 21 and ended on January 25.
16. 1:35National Park Service spokesman Mike Litterst told reporters that the damage was not widespread.
17. 1:43Fred. He said most visitors took good care of the land.
18. 1:49But interviews with park officials and nonprofit groups that help keep parks running tell a different story.
19. 1:59Angie Richman is a spokeswoman at Arches National Park in Utah.
20. 2:05She said visitors left human waste outside a bathroom,
21. 2:10walked on trails within an area that was off-limits to visitors and damaged an entrance gate.
22. 2:19At Joshua Tree National Park, an off-road vehicle ran over one of the park's special trees.
23. 2:27Several other Joshua trees were damaged, including one that was spray-painted.
24. 2:33A former Joshua Tree National Park ranger told Smithsonian .com
25. 2:40that it could take 200 to 300 years for the park
26. 2:46to fully recover from the shutdown damage.
27. 2:51At Great Smoky Mountains National Park,
28. 2:54visitors cut locks on some gates to closed roads and and stole about $5 ,000
29. 3:02in repair tools," spokeswoman Dana Sohn said.
30. 3:08Employees at Death Valley National Park in California found human waste
31. 3:14and toilet paper all across the desert.
32. 3:19Park officials also found evidence of people kicking in locked bathroom doors.
33. 3:25and a high-speed video on Death Valley's Facebook page shows how it took staffers two
34. 3:33hours to clean a bathroom overflowing with trash and covered with waste.
35. 3:41Workers at Death Valley National Park must replant in areas damaged by off-road vehicles.
36. 3:48All of this delays much-needed repairs in other areas
37. 3:54of the 1 .3 million hectare park.
38. 3:59David Blacker is chief of the Death Valley Natural History Association.
39. 4:06He told the Associated Press,
40. 4:09It became pretty depressing the kinds of things people will do when they are unsupervised.
41. 4:16At some parks, the lack of people meant animals moved in.
42. 4:23A colony of elephant seals took over a northern California beach in Point Reyes National Seashore.
43. 4:32There were no workers there to prevent the animals from gathering in the popular tourist area.
44. 4:39Park Rangers and volunteers are now leading small groups of visitors to safely see the seals
45. 4:47and their young.
46. 4:50The possibility of another shutdown remains.
47. 4:54President Donald Trump and congressional leaders agreed to a temporary spending bill
48. 5:00that reopened the government for three weeks.
49. 5:03Trump has said another shutdown could start Feb.
50. 5:0815 if he and Democratic leaders cannot agree on money for a U.S.-Mexico border wall.
51. 5:16I'm Ashley Thompson.