The Washington Post
by Juliet Eilperin and Lenny Bernstein
October 11, 2013

On Saturday, the barricades at Utah’s Natural Bridges National Monument will disappear, allowing visitors to return to the tourist draw despite the government shutdown. They will also come down at Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park, Arizona’s Grand Canyon and New York’s Statue of Liberty.

What began as a sort of modern Sagebrush Rebellion — with Utah county commissioners threatening to bring in a posse and dismantle federal barricades themselves — has become an intense negotiation between Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and governors across the country, who are eager to reopen public lands that generate valuable tourism revenue.

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