Jamestown Settlement (WYDaily/Courtesy of Jamestown Rediscovery)
Jamestown Rediscovery and the National Park Service at Colonial National Historical Park are reopening Historic Jamestowne to the public on Monday, Mar. 1.
The site and museum have been temporarily closed since Dec. 21 due to rising cases of COVID-19 in the region.
“The safety of visitors, staff, and volunteers remains our number one priority and we have been closely monitoring the state of the ongoing pandemic,” Jim Horn, Jamestown Rediscovery President said in a statement from a news release. “All of us very much look forward to safely welcoming visitors back to the site.”
The National Park Service has changed its permitting requirements so that commercial filmmakers no longer have to pay fees or gain clearance as long as shoots are small and not in the wilderness.
That nationwide change in regulation, announced Monday, came after a Washington, D.C., court ruled in January that the fees were unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a permanent injunction halting the filming requirements, finding that the fees could have a âchilling effectâ for a âwide swathâ of visitors to national parks.
For now the change is limited to national parks. But at least one Jackson Hole wildlife filmmaker hopes to see the change extended to other public lands.
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