Protecting Icons

Published May 28, 2013 2:48pm ET



[G]ood news for our employees, good news for our visitors as we start the summer season this Memorial Day Weekend, and good news for the security of our nation’s icons — the places that the dedicated men and women of the U.S. Park Police protect every day.” 

This was National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis in an announcement last week. As Kedar Pavgi reports in Government Executive, the Interior Department will not be furloughing park police as had been planned/threatened last February. The sequester would, in this scenario, have forced national parks to make serious cuts, thus doing serious damage to the tourist industry … and so forth.

Now, it seems, there is money to keep the park police on duty.  And in more good news:

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