Damian Paletta:

Yeah, it's really interesting. So during shutdowns, even though national parks is kind of a small part of the federal budget, they become the public face of the shutdown because so many Americans go visit national parks — you know, Statue of Liberty, et cetera. And so right now, what we've seen is the first major reversal by the White House during the shutdown. They have reversed themselves and are planning to reopen parts of the parks that had been closed and add staffing, because it was giving unsustainable the amount of trash that was piling up, you know, the bathrooms that were getting very unsanitary and so they're going to try to add staff back using the fees they collect from people that are entering these parks. Now it was deemed, you know, just a week ago that they cannot legally do that, because you're not allowed to use the entrance fees to pay the staff and things like that, that has to be appropriated by Congress. But they've decided that they need to do that. They have to do that. And so we're expecting the political fight over that as well, but that's what I'm trying to say, these are the sorts of flash decisions they're trying to make to minimize the impact of the shutdown. But a lot of these things are unprecedented, never been tested, and you know it's unclear how it will work.