NPCA: Trump Budget Would Close 300-Plus National Parks – RVBusiness – Breaking RV Industry News
More than 90 percent of Biscayne National Park is underwater, so no one would miss it if it was dropped from the National Park System, right, asks writer Kurt Repanshek at NationalParksTraveler.org? You might say the same for Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout national seashores, which are located on barrier islands that sea-level rise eventually is going to submerge, so why should they remain in the system?
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve attracted fewer than 3,000 visitors last year, so why is the National Park Service paying staff to keep it open? Close it!
That just might be the thinking of President Donald Trump, whose fiscal 2026 budget proposal calls for a $900 million cut to the Park Service’s operations budget, a slash that the National Parks Conservation Association says would require about 350 parks to lose all of their funding.
“The president’s proposed budget plan is beyond extreme. It is catastrophic. Every action taken so far by this administration has chipped away at national parks and their staff, but this budget is the final blow. If enacted by Congress, our National Park System would be completely decimated,” said Theresa Pierno, who leads NPCA.
Trump just might be signaling that that’s his intent. Indeed, his budget proposal, which overall calls for more than $1 billion in cuts to the Park Service, suggested that some park units be pushed off to state management.
Click here to read the complete article at NationalParksTraveler.org.
