The Antiplanner went for a hike yesterday on a national forest, and nobody tried to keep me out because the government was shut down. National parks, however, are closed to the public during the shutdown.
Flickr photo taken at Saguaro National Park on October 1 by 666ismoney.
Some might argue that national parks have more at stake that shouldn’t be left to the mercies of unsupervised tourists. That may be true in some cases, though not in others. Moreever, when I visit a Forest Service web site, it offers me access to all of the documents and information that were available before the shut down. But when I try to access a Park Service web site, I get a message saying, “Because of the federal government shutdown, all national parks are closed and National Park Service webpages are not operating.”
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It doesn’t cost the government any more to maintain a web site denying people access to government web sites than it does to allow access to those sites. If the Department of the Interior were truly shut down, there wouldn’t be any message at all, just a “server not found” error. Similarly,the Park Service has to actually employ people to tell visitors to leave the parks, which it couldn’t do if it were really shut down.
So it is clear that the Park Service and, likely, the entire Department of the Interior is just being spiteful in closing web sites and national park sites to the public. To the Antiplanner, this is just one more reason to reduce funding to these agencies.
Unless the government is leasing server space and isn’t authorized to pay for that server space during a funding gap (unlikely), it actually cost the government MORE to replace the website with the equivalent of a “we’re closed” sign than it would have to just leave up the original.
Having worked for both the USFS and the NPS, I’m not surprised. This happened during a previous govt shutdown, and at a park where I worked, there was an incident with the NPS gestapo drawing weapons on “trespassers”; if anything these actions, including closing the parks, destroy the claim that “parks belong to the people”; they clearly belong to the leviathan.
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It doesn’t cost the government any more to maintain a web site denying people access to government web sites than it does to allow access to those sites. If the Department of the Interior were truly shut down, there wouldn’t be any message at all, just a “server not found” error. Similarly,the Park Service has to actually employ people to tell visitors to leave the parks, which it couldn’t do if it were really shut down.
Curiously, high-speed/high-capacity NPS motor roads in and near D.C. like the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and the George Washington Memorial Parkway remain open.