Trump's budget proposes a 20% reduced reduction in the park budget

President Donald Trump's new budget proposal would reduce the budget for the national parks, monuments, historical sites, coasts and ways of the nation by almost 25% and hand over many of the states.

The proposal suggests reducing more than 1.2 billion US dollars from the Park Service budget of 4.8 billion US dollars. It quickly triggered the outrage of managers from organizations who were devoted to the national parks and recreation areas that had already been concerned about the ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry for state efficiency and other plans.

“It is nothing less than a comprehensive attack on America's national parks,” said Theresa Pierno, President and CEO of the National Park Conservation Association, a non -profit interest group. “This is the most extreme, most unrealistic and destructive national park service budget that a president has ever proposed in the agency's 109-year history.”

Overall, the cuts of Park Service belong to more than $ 33 billion for the proposed reduction in budget proposal in connection with parks and public countries, environmental management, nature conservation and scientifically related programs and grants.

The Center for Western Priorities described the budget “a bleak vision for America's parks and public areas”.

The park service has 2,400 to 2,500 employees, more than 10% of its employees, including the release of probation assistants and others who have accepted voluntary buyouts and early retirement Parks preservation Association. The cuts have forced parks to shorten hours, close visitor centers, hang tours and limit the camping reservations.

“This administration tries to reduce the park service from the inside,” remove staff and tries to give away hundreds of locations within the system, said Pierno.

Give away parking spaces

Statements of the budget proposal led to concern about the loss of parking locations.

Many of the 433 locations within the parking service are not in the traditional sense of “national parks”, receive a small number of local visitors and are better categorized and managed as (s) parks at the tape level, “it says.

If the Weiße House's proposal is approved, the Americans would “lose access to millions of hectares of their public areas,” said Jennifer Rocala from the Center for Western Priorities.

“The handover of national parking spaces to states is a non -starter,” said Rokala. “States cannot afford to manage them, so the inevitable result is the closure and privatization of our esteemed public areas.”

It is true that only 63 of the properties are officially referred to as “national parks”, but all units have Park Service names. Dozens are referred to as national monuments and the list contains several extensive monuments in the southwest that protect thousands of old archaeological sites.

The list includes landscape coastal lines such as the Rocks National Lakeshore shown in Michigan and Canaveral National Seashore, the 24 miles untouched dunes and strands in central florida, which were kept in Cape Canaveral when creating the Kennedy Space Center.

In total, the 433 units are the “largest legacy in the nation,” said Pierno. “Any effort to hand over many of these websites to the states is a betrayal and the American people will not stand for it.”

Proposed budget cuts

The budget suggests shortening:

◾ 900 million US dollars from the Park Service Operations.

◾ 158 million US dollars from historical condition.

◾ 77 million US dollars of reservation and preservation financing.

◾ 73 million US dollars from the National Park Construction, said the Parks organizations.

The proposal indicated that the Historical Preservation Fund of the Park Service is twice and often financed projects of “more local than national importance”.

The budget accused the bidges management of the “wasted federal financing” at construction projects at locations that are managed more appropriate at the local level. It was also found that the reduction would complement the administration's agenda for “federalism and transfer of smaller, less visited parks to state and tribal governments”.

In the budget it was found that many projects that receive national recovery and conservation grants are “not directly connected to the maintenance of national parks or public countries that have a big deficit in maintenance and are more important than the initiatives to relax the community.”

After the departure of Chuck Sams, who served during the bid administration, the Park Service does not yet have a confirmed director. The parking service ran without a confirmed director throughout the first term.

How many national parking spaces are there?

Of the 433 units in the system, the largest is the 13.2 million hectares of wrangella. Elias National Park and Preserve in Ostalaska. The smallest is the Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial in Philadelphia, the former home of a Polish freedom fighter and engineer, who designed fastening during the American revolution.

Here is a breakdown of the national websites:

National monuments	87
National historical sites	76
National Historical Parks	63
National parks	63
National monuments	31
National Noven	19
National recreation areas	18
National battlefields	11
Other names (including the White House and the National Mall)	11
National wild and scenic rivers	10
National cuisine	10
National military parks	9
National picturesque hiking trails	6
National battlefield parks	4
National parking play	4
National rivers	4
National Lakeshores	3
National reserves	2
National battlefield historical sites	1
International historical sites	1

Dinah Voyle's powder, a national correspondent for USA Today, covers climate change, the weather, the environment and other news. Reach it at dpulver@usatoday.com or @dinahvp on bluesky or x or dinahvp.77 on signal.

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