Three companies have agreed to collectively donate funds to pay for operations in Muir Woods National Monument in Marin County through Oct. 31. National parks across the country have been closed since the federal government shut down Oct. 1.

Operational costs are being covered by the Muir Woods Trading Company, which operates the park’s gift shop and cafe; Ace Parking, which runs a shuttle service into the park from remote lots; and the tour company Must See Tours.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.