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1 day ago2 San Jose parks could need more than $10,000 in repairs after vandal ruins grass
Vehicles tore through two San Jose parks, creating muddy tire marks and divots that will cost over $10,000 to repair.
For more than a month from December 2018 through January 2019, thousands of National Park Service employees were furloughed nationwide but the Trump administration kept many national parks open. Unsupervised, visitors drove through wilderness and historic sites, camped where they weren't supposed to, and vandalized plants and buildings at parks across California. The trash and the feces piled up. In the days after the shutdown ended, park staff found at least 1,665 clumps of toilet paper littering Death Valley alone,