From the Statue of Liberty to Niagara Falls, there are more than thirty national parks and monuments across New York that could benefit from a bill that passed in the U. S. Senate last month. The Great American Outdoors Act would permanently back the Land and Water Conservation Fund and address the nearly 12-billion-dollar maintenance backlog at national parks and monuments. Marcia Argust is the director of the Pew Charitable Trusts’ “Restore America’s Parks Campaign” and says the measure would use non-taxpayer money from energy development on public lands to repair and preserve historic sites…
The Great American Outdoors Act would direct up to nine-point-five-billion dollars over five years to priority repairs in national parks and on public lands.