MUNISING, MI -- There’s still visitors roaming along the shores of Lake Superior in Michigan’s national parks but there’s quite a bit of “door rattling” as they pull on locked Visitor Center and Headquarters.

National Parks are on a shoestring staff as the federal government shutdown rounds into a third week.

The skeleton crew is shaken as the rumors of federal firings came true on Friday when seven agencies issued reduction-in-force notices to more than 4,000 workers − some of which have already been reversed.

The National Park Service was not among the federal agencies that had firings, but the general mood among workers is wary and anxious, said Tom Irvine, executive director of National Parks of Lake Superior Foundation.

Furloughed workers seem to be left in the dark without much d

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