A public-private effort to plow roads in Yellowstone National Park and open up 2 of the park's entrances on time this spring despite federal budget cuts has reached a milestone with state and federal road crews meeting up on the park's East Entrance Road. The Wyoming Department of Transportation crews plowing westward and Yellowstone crews plowing eastward met up around 11 a.m. Wednesday. The Cody Country Chamber of Commerce and town of Jackson have pooled $171,000 to hire the state snow-clearing crews. The goal is to open the East gate May 3 and South gate May 10 as had been planned before federal budget cuts took effect in March. The cuts caused park officials to delay spring plowing and the gate openings by two weeks.
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