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Majority of national parks will close and annual Fat Bear Week canceled if government shuts down, Biden admin warns

The National Park Service is warning that it will close most US national parks if Congress fails to come to an agreement to avoid a government shutdown this weekend, and a popular social media campaign celebrating fat bears will be canceled.

The parks will close as the agency applies lessons learned from previous shutdowns to its closure plans.

“In the event of a lapse in the annual government appropriations, National Park Service sites will be closed. The parks depend on Congress and appropriations to pay staff salaries and keep the parks running. This means that the majority of national parks will be closed completely to public access,” a senior administration official said.

kraftpudding ,

What is fat bear week?

snooggums ,
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A bunch of obese gay men eating nuts before their winter slumber.

kandoh ,

The bears in Alaska bulk up for hibernation. They come into the park really, really skinny and then everyone makes bets on who will put on the most weight. It’s a lot of fun.

macarthur_park ,

Choose the fattest bear of the year! Some of the largest brown bears on Earth make their home at Brooks River in Katmai National Park, Alaska. Brown bears get fat to survive and Fat Bear Week is an annual tournament celebrating their success in preparation for winter hibernation.

www.nps.gov/katm/learn/fat-bear-junior-2023.htm

I recommend checking out the above link for some chonky bear pics.

Deceptichum ,
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Eh I’ve been doing that for decades, these bears aren’t special.

ccderg ,

How can a national park be ‘closed’? Do they build a giant wall around them in the great 'merica to isolate the nature inside? Do they make you pay for a ticket like in an amusement park?

SheeEttin ,

The rangers go home. If there are gates, they close them.

And trash stops getting picked up and the bathrooms are locked, so you can imagine what happens when people go in anyway.

randomaccount43543 ,

Why you downvoting this guy? I was wondering too how closing a national park works 🤔

betwixthewires ,

Oh no what ever shall we do.

stopthatgirl7 ,
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No Fat Bear Week? They’ve gone too far.

thenextguy ,

What will the fat bears do?!

Swim ,

ive always thought fat bear week was superior to shark week

Fredselfish ,
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So my ability to visit Yellowstone National Park is at the whim of the fucking Republicans.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod ,
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As the Founding Fathers intended

betwixthewires ,

I don’t think the founding fathers intended that the federal government own this much land.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod ,
@Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social avatar

Yes, land should be owned by private people to do with as they please. If I want to pave over Yellowstone and put up a strip mall by god that's my right as an American, provided I've got enough money.

betwixthewires ,

I didn’t say anything like that, just since what the founding fathers would’ve wanted came up I figured I’d point out that they probably would’ve wanted you to be able to go into the woods whether there was a government or not.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod ,
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For that we don't need to get rid of federal land, we need the Right to Roam over private property without getting arrested.

betwixthewires ,

Yeah I think you’re right too.

grue ,

Founding Father Thomas Jefferson literally bought the land Yellowstone sits on.

(Well, most of it, anyway – it looks like part of the park straddles the boundary between the Louisiana Purchase and the Oregon Territory?)

artisanrox ,
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I don't they they intended for like ten elected nazis to withhold the paychecks of like 3 million people

rusticus ,

It cannot be repeated too much: vote vote vote.

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