Looks like there are a few drones flyers taking advantage of the shutdown in the NPS but mostly the other "criminals" are the base jumpers:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/freedom-flout-rules-jumpers-others-234953243.html...
As I've mentioned before, there are no express FAA and/or NPS regulations which prohibit drone flights in the public airspace above national parklands. Thus, you can legally launch, land, and operate a drone outside park boundaries and fly over...
Yeah, only thing worse than a working ranger is a pissed off unpaid working ranger !
Unless you can throw some cash at him to get him to look in another direction...
Yes, the rules are the same and they're being enforced. Some folks, thinking that the henhouse isn't guarded, might be tempted to ignore the rules, but the NPS's law enforcement rangers haven't been furloughed. They're on the job, obliged to...