In Mariposa County, Calif., near Yosemite National Park, the county board of supervisors has asked the governor to declare the county an economic disaster area. With the park closed and tourists departing, the county is losing from $8,000 to $ 10,000 a day in tax revenue, the Interior Department said.
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