How Yellowstone National Park is preparing to handle federal shutdown

How Yellowstone National Park is preparing to handle federal shutdown

Budget impasse could have bigger impact than just furloughs, government watchers warn.

How national parks are preparing to handle federal shutdown

In January 2019, MacNeil Lyons was four years into Yellowstone Insight, the guide service he founded in 2015 to bring visitors through Yellowstone National Park for wildlife, photography and history tours.  The federal government had shut down a few weeks earlier, on Dec. 22, and much to Lyons’ delight the feds had opted to keep the gates open to Yellowstone. His team kept filling guided trips but soon realized that since park employees were fur…