Claim: Some visitors to Joshua Tree National Park cut down trees and perpetrated other acts of vandalism in January 2019 while staff, whose numbers were diminished due to the federal government shutdown, attempted to monitor visitor behavior.
Fact-check: Did Visitors to Joshua Tree National Park Cut Down Trees During the Government Shutdown?
Verdict: true
Organisation: Snopes
Author: Dan Macguill
Date published: 2019-01-11T08:12:54