Editorial: Privatizing NP services wrong answer, but Trump is right to call backlog a crisis

It’s easy to dismiss as absurd the Trump administration’s ideas for plugging the chronic funding gap of our national parks. Can anyone really think it’s a good idea to allow Amazon deliveries to your tent in Yosemite or food trucks to line up under the redwood trees at Sequoia National Park?

But the administration is right about one thing: U.S. national parks are in crisis. Collectively, they have a maintenance backlog of more than $12 billion. Roads, trails, restrooms, visitor centers and other infrastructure are crumbling.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-12-02/opinion-its-easy-to-dismiss-a-trump-administration-plan-for-national-parks-but-the-parks-are-in-crisis