Yosemite and other national parks will remain partially open with skeleton crews during the government shutdown, according to a National Park Service contingency plan, a move the National Parks Conservation Association says could cause irreparable damage to the parks.

Open air sites will remain open to the public, but buildings such as visitor centers that require staffing will be closed. The contingency plan says that park roads, lookouts, trails and open-air memorials will stay open, but emergency services will be limited.

National parks could lose as much as $1 million in fee revenue each day the shutdown goes on, and gateway communities could lose as much as $80 million in visitor spending, the NPCA said in a news release Wednesday.

In a 2018 shutdown from Dec. 22-Jan. 25, the Trump

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