{"id":2572,"date":"2025-10-14T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/2572\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:56:07","slug":"refuge-reports-on-shutdown-sanibel-captiva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/2572\/","title":{"rendered":"Refuge reports on shutdown &#8211; SANIBEL-CAPTIVA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.captivasanibel.com\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                &#13;<br \/>\n                    \/News                                                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n            <\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>1 \/ 2<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"slide\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/REFUGE-DDWS-CLOSURE-1100x825.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>REFUGE\/DDWS<br \/>\nWildlife Drive tram tours at the J.N. \u201cDing\u201d Darling National Wildlife Refuge will continue to run during the government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>2 \/ 2<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"slide\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/REFUGE-DDWS-CLOSURE-1-1081x840.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>REFUGE\/DDWS<br \/>\nPrior to the government shutdown, the J.N. \u201cDing\u201d Darling National Wildlife Refuge reported that it was planning for a November completion of its Visitor &amp; Education Center on Sanibel.<\/p>\n<p>            <a class=\"prev next_prev_slide\" onclick=\"plusSlides(-1)\"><\/a><br \/>\n            <a class=\"next next_prev_slide\" onclick=\"plusSlides(1)\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>            [expand]<\/p>\n<p>        close<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The J.N. \u201cDing\u201d Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel reported that due to the lapse in federal appropriations, most U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel will not be available during the government shutdown. Its Visitor &amp; Education Center, restrooms and administrative offices are closed; the restrooms on Wildlife Drive remain open. Public access to the refuge\u2019s lands and waters, such as Wildlife Drive, Indigo Trail, Bailey Tract and Tarpon Bay Explorers, remain open. It includes the continuation of narrated tram tours on Wildlife Drive on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/shutdown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/shutdown<\/a>. Prior to the shutdown, the refuge shared that it was planning for a November completion of the repairs being made to its center.<\/p>\n<p>            &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; \/News &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; 1 \/ 2 REFUGE\/DDWS Wildlife Drive tram tours&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}