"To make some 6,000 shafts and caves completely safe would take money that Reynolds does not have."
Dynamite them closed. Next?
We have hundreds of mine shafts in our area. The proper way to solve the problem is to cap the shafts, usually with cement slabs. We also have a mining inspector who travels the territory making certain the caps are in good repair.
Of course hiring a person who actually has a skill and actually works for a living will entail spending money. That might mean decreasing the salary of worthless federal bureaucrats or firing one. And we can't have that.
--nobody has fallen into them yet. To make them "completely" safe means close the park. This is the usual annual budget bleating--