Source: The Hill
By Marcia Argust and Tom Wathen
February 25, 2019
With the House expected to soon consider the public lands package recently passed by the Senate, now is the time to move on other unfinished business: the Restore Our Parks and Public Lands Act (H.R. 1225) and the Restore Our Parks Act (S. 500), which would address priority repairs at America’s aging — and in many cases deteriorating — national park facilities.
The National Park Service (NPS), which manages more than 400 sites across the country, faces a backlog of repairs that would cost nearly $12 billion to fix. Americans want well-maintained NPS sites, which became even more evident in the public reaction to the partial government shutdown’s impact on national parks and adjacent communities in December and January.
