West Virginia Watch, Yahoo News – West Virginia is entering into an agreement to donate nearly $100,000 to the National Park Service in order to keep the state’s national parks open amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.
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The money is coming from the governor’s civil contingency fund, a pot of money that serves as the state’s main resource for handling natural disasters as well as for the governor to use in any way he sees fit.
It totals about $98,000, with about $66,500 of that going toward operations at Harpers Ferry and nearly $31,500 for the New River Gorge, according to Drew Galang, the deputy press secretary for Gov. Patrick Morrisey.
