Attractions, Zoo could be affected by the shutdown

The Government shutdown could have far-reaching effects if the current budget impasse is resolved. Those who visit national parks, including the State of freedom and the Grand Canyon to name of only two, will be be rejected in the near future. Also the next space shuttle launch would be delayed in the case of the Government shutdown.

The statue of liberty-probably said to avert huddled masses yearning for access, the same fate as the Grand Canyon and other U.S. suffer National Park, a U.S. budget impasse Friday is not resolved, officials.

With the White House and Congress reached a dead end about issues, contingency plans were made for a shut down non-essential eGovernment services. This could be some 800,000 federal employees and locations, such as the Smithsonian Institution museums including the National Zoo influence.

The National Zoo was closed, but Zoo officials assured discovery messages, which care for the plant would continue to animals.

"All behind the scenes work relating to the animals zoo will be the same," said Lindsay Renick Mayer of the Smithsonian's National Zoo in an e-Mail to Discovery News. "The animals will be made all the possibilities, that they be done any other time."

But the shutdown would affect operated by the National Park Service, including the popular attractions in the West such as Yellowstone and Alcatraz pages.

"We hope there will be no Government shutdown." "If there is a Government shutdown, we all our 394 national park sites, will close", Park Service spokesman David Barna said.

The Agency is not only parks and historical landmarks including the statue of liberty in New York Harbor and the former prison of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay.

These sites host an average 800,000 unique visitors per day at this time of year.

If they are shut down, removed Barna Rangers in place, and in the Park, where people live in camping or hotel, "We will ask them to leave," said people would turn.

Shutting down the Park Service would maintain only around 2,000 of the 17,000 employees at protecting sites. A further 15,000 employees of subcontractors such as hotels would risk no budget is approved also layoffs.

Barna said that the economic losses would be from a shutdown of the Web sites to around 32 million dollars per day.

Also the next NASA shuttle ready, now 29 April, could be affected. After one would today published NASA memo only tasks for the protection of life and assets critical during the shutdown process a Government further. So, the work on new shuttle launches and other new projects could face an indefinite delay.

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