LAS VEGAS ( FOX5 ) — If you’d like to live in a national park, Lake Mead National Recreation Area is offering a new, unique opportunity. They are looking for volunteers to watch over Government Wash. The once-popular campground was shut down a year ago after homeless encampments and crime became rampant.

“This area is not meant to house 300+ residents that are living here,” explained then Chief Ranger of Lake Mead Trouper Snow as we followed along as Government Wash was cleared out last July, rangers notifying holdouts it was time to go.

“Over the past five years, our law enforcement. has responded to well over 1,000 incidents,” Snow revealed. Homeless encampments, along a series of makeshift roads, damaging the fragile ecosystem, were a major problem. The small part of the park was th

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