2020 Year in Review: Top Stories From Around the National Park System
A story from National Parks Traveler includes insight from Margaret Walls about the Great American Outdoors Act.
As welcome as the [Great American Outdoors Act] was, some warned that it shouldn't be viewed as the solution for the Park Service's maintenance situation.
"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, told the Traveler in August. "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.
"Unless you have a better ongoing funding situation for the parks, you're still going to run into this problem over time."
