Sequestration Hits Valley Forge Park

Find out what the national sequester issues will mean for national parks in our area.

If heading to Valley Forge National Historic Park is on your to-do list this summer, you might need to double check the schedule. Due to sequestration, parks like Valley Forge may have staffing and hours on the "chopping block." “Every park in the system would be affected, including treasured places like Gettysburg, Independence Hall and Valley Forge, and the local economies that depend on visitor spending would also suffer,” said Cinda Waldbuesser, senior Pennsylvania program manager for the National Parks Conservation Association in a recent release. “The National Parks Service is a bureau run for the people,” said Director of National Park Services Jonathan Jarvis. “We are being asked to take a full year of cuts in the second-half of …

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