Privately run parks that actually pay money into the Treasury rather than costing money being closed as well? Could be I suppose with dumber than dirt liberal morons in charge.
Nope, it's got nothing to do with Treasury money or anything like that, it's
pure politics.
From
another article:
But given that in past shutdowns or budget standoffs, some park closings have been resolved, critics say the National Park Service is now being far too aggressive in barricading public lands. Some are accusing the agency of “showdown theater,” aimed at pinning blame on Republicans and reminding people of the importance of the federal government.
“It’s a cheap way to deal with the situation,” an unnamed Park Service ranger reportedly told The Washington Times. “We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting."
In what some say is a first, the National Park Service has also shut down private operations that lease federal lands but do not rely on federal personnel for patrols or backup. [reference the story in the OP]
Some public land experts argue that anger against the National Park Service is misplaced – that the agency is only following protocol by shuttering its own and rental operations on federal lands.
“The Park Service has much more of a stronger resource-protection mission than other federal [land] agencies,” says John Freemuth, a former park ranger who’s now a political scientist at Boise State University in Idaho. National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis, the first biologist to head the agency, “takes [resource protection] ... seriously, and I think the agency has a legitimate worry: There’s archaeological resources, there are threatened species, and I think they worry about what might happen there” during a shutdown.
“I’m totally sympathetic to their weariness of all this,” Professor Freemuth adds. “It’s not like they want to close parks.”
South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard (R) offered to use state employees to keep Mount Rushmore open, but was rebuffed by park officials. Other governors have offered state funds to keep parks open, and in every case have been blocked by park and other agency officials.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has turned off its entire website in response to the government shutdown, leaving farmers, reporters and others with no way to access any of the agency's information online. They didn't leave the Web site alone, they instead altered it to make a point. The USDA page gives readers no way to enter the department’s main website and access information that was posted prior to Oct. 1.
Instead, and ya can't make it up, it directs readers to three other sites, including a White House page, that describe the Obama administration's response to Congress's failure to pass a 2014 appropriations bill.
Other agencies say their sites won't be updated, but allow visitors to access older information. The Commerce Department, the Departments of Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, Labor and others have posted notes saying their sites will "not be actively managed" or will not be regularly updated. But these still allow readers to navigate around the website. Not the USDA website, though.
The USDA, National Park Service and anything remotely related is being used to politicize all this in order to place the blame for these shutdowns on the Republicans.
Meanwhile Republicans, who helped to force the shutdown, have passed temporary funding bills in the House to keep parks open, but none of those bills, not one, have been taken up by the Democratic Senate. The Senate Democrats won't even discuss it. Democrats want people to be pіssed about the park closures, and they want the people to blame the Republicans for it. Therefore ergo thus, Democrats are doing everything they can to ensure the parks remain closed.
Those who DON'T like Obama Care, are just as "general" as those who do. In our area, most are opposed to it. 
