Experts: Pending funding bill will help with NP maintenance backlog, but much more money needed
- Dave Harmon, PW editor
- Jul 21, 2020
- 1 min read
Passage by the House of Representatives of the Great American Outdoors Act this week would queue up $6.5 billion for the National Park Service to use in tackling backlogged maintenance work, but it won't solve the problem, according to an outside economist.
"This is a Band-Aid. It's fine, it's good to get some money, an infusion of cash, to solve some of these problems, that's great," Margaret Walls, a senior fellow at Resources For the Future, said Monday during a phone call. "But it doesn't really address the long-term problem, which, as you said, the deficit grows every year and they continue to add to this list of projects that need to be done.
https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2020/07/great-american-outdoors-act-not-panacea-national-park-service-woes
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