Ohiopyle State park is open.
Like they can really stop someone from using the rest of the forest.
Anyone with a complaint about this should call 1-800-318-2596 (1-800-F**KYO) to complain.
..utterly ridiculous...what are they going to do if you're caught walking on the beach?
First Explanation in Writing As To Why USFS Is Closing Privately-Funded Parks. Coyote Blog (Dispatches from a Small Business), Warren Meyer, October 3, 2013.From our shutdown order:
Congress has not provided appropriations for fiscal year 2014. Pursuant to applicable legal requirements in the Antideficiency Act and Attorney General opinions addressing agency operations in the absence of appropriations, the Forest Service is unable to administer federally-owned recreation facilities. Consequently these facilities will be shut down and posted accordingly with signs provided, with gates locked where they exist, restrooms locked, and water systems shut down. Visitors in occupied sites would be given 48 hours to vacate, with the area shut down as the last visitor leaves, not to exceed 48 hours.
In other words, we pay all the bills, run the parks in an independent manner, have no USFS people stationed in the parks, but we have to shut down because the Forest Service can no longer "administer" the facilities. Huh? What day-to-day administration is necessary. Remember that the USFS itself did not think their presence was necessary, originally confirming on Tuesday that we would stay open as we had in all past shutdowns.
We often go weeks and months in these facilities without ever seeing a USFS manager. The USFS considers it so important to have staff available to "administer" these facilities that none of their recreation personnel work on weekends or on holidays, by far and away the busiest and most difficult times in these facilities.
PS- I see the part about the Attorney General. Did Eric Holder decide to close us? Doesn't he know that poor and minorities disproportionately use public vs. private recreation? Isn't that a disparate impact issue in closing us?
Obama trying to defund the fall foliage LOL
Harry made the Senate dems vote down the funds to open it yesterday.
Story didn’t mention that of course LOL!
Do the bears know this?
Go open any gate near enough to you and encourage others to do the same.
Childish.
I’d just walk in.
Might go to Pinnacles or Point Reyes this weekend.
Hoky Smokes! My home town. I visited Rimrock many many times as a lad. It’s wierd what is going on in that little town. It has morphed into a bohemian enclave (more or less). Smart bohemians, Warren is a gorgeous town with beautiful scenery.