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OLYMPIA, Wash. — The state will reduce services at Ahtanum Meadows and Snow Cabin campgrounds in Yakima County in November due to budget cuts, according to the Department of Natural Resources.
The public can still use these and other state trust lands, but services will be reduced. There will not be amenities such as outhouses, picnic tables, signs or garbage cans. Visitors must pack out everything they bring in.
Other campgrounds around the state are affected immediately.
“As a result of budget cuts, DNR has had to make some difficult and painful decisions,” Commissioner of Public Lands Peter Goldmark said in a news release.
Goldmark said the measures are needed to address the decreased funding of DNR’s recreation program in the two-year budget cycle that started Wednesday.
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