{"id":326,"date":"2013-10-03T11:56:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T15:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isleroyale.org\/?p=326"},"modified":"2026-06-08T12:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:09:23","slug":"isle-royale-closes-due-to-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isleroyale.org\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"Isle Royale closes due to government shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Jim Milburn for forwarding this to IRBA.ORG<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uppermichiganssource.com\/news\/story.aspx?id=953581#.Uk04-oZlLNk\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.uppermichiganssource.com\/news\/story.aspx?id=953581#.Uk04-oZlLNk<\/a><\/p>\n<div>by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uppermichiganssource.com\/about\/bio.aspx?id=1080\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Blakely<\/a><\/div>\n<div><span>Posted: 10.01.2013 at 5:40 PM<\/span><span style=\"color: #424242;\"> <\/span><span>Updated: 10.02.2013 at 8:20 AM<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>HOUGHTON &#8212;\u00a0National parks around the country are closing up shop due to the government shutdown, and thousands of workers are being temporarily laid off.<\/p>\n<p>For Isle Royale National Park workers, the time of year they usually begin to prep the island for closure is being bumped up about two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBasically, we have to winterize every water line and every building out there prior to shutdown in order to protect the taxpayers\u2019 investments on buildings on the island,\u201d explained Park Superintendent, Phyllis Green.<\/p>\n<p>The park service has had to furlough about 100 of their workers, most of who work out on the island. For now, the Ranger III is docked in the canal, but starting\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Wednesday<\/span><\/span>, it will make the trip out to the island to start bringing back nonessential personnel and some visitors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this point in time, we are not allowing concessions to take additional people to the island,\u201d\u00a0Green added. \u201cWe\u2019re allowing them to go out and retrieve people from the island, and that will probably take through the end of next week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Workers classified as \u201cessential\u201d that will remain on the island until winterization is completed include utility and law enforcement staff and contractors working on the new seven million dollar solar panel system that will be installed next spring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe contractor\u2019s got a lot of design work he\u2019ll be doing while we\u2019re shut down,\u201d\u00a0Green explained, \u201cso that was a grant. We got the grant, so really it\u2019s going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But for now, all other national park services will be closed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur national park leaf color season is a really wonderful time for people to be out in the woods, and people are going to find gates shut and unavailability,\u201d\u00a0Green said.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Jim Milburn for forwarding this to IRBA.ORG http:\/\/www.uppermichiganssource.com\/news\/story.aspx?id=953581#.Uk04-oZlLNk by\u00a0Sarah Blakely Posted: 10.01.2013 at 5:40 PM Updated: 10.02.2013 at 8:20 AM HOUGHTON &#8212;\u00a0National parks around the country are closing up shop due to the government shutdown, and thousands of workers are being temporarily laid off. For Isle Royale National Park workers, the time of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isleroyale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isleroyale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isleroyale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isleroyale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isleroyale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.isleroyale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/www.isleroyale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isleroyale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isleroyale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isleroyale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}