Overflowing toilets, trash on trails, damaged Joshua trees: National parks during the government shutdown

Jan. 02, 2019 California

It’s the 12th day of the partial government shutdown. National parks are largely unsupervised, including Yosemite and Joshua Tree in California. Joshua Tree has been open for visitors to enter -- for free, since no one was there to collect fees.

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In shutdown, national parks transform into Wild West — heavily populated and barely supervised

Credits

Guest:

Meghann Cuniff - reporter for the LA Daily Journal

Host:

Madeleine Brand

Producers:

Sarah Sweeney, Michell Eloy, Amy Ta, Christian Bordal, Yael Even Or, Alexandra Sif Tryggvadottir, Caitlin Plummer

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