.@SecretaryZinke has proposed raising peak season fees at 17 National Parks, including three in California: @YosemiteNPS, @JoshuaTreeNP & @SequoiaKingsNPS.
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.@SecretaryZinke claims too many people visit our #NationalParks without paying. He’s wrong – free entry passes are only available to active military, individuals with permanent disabilities, children and park volunteers.
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The fee increase is supposedly meant to address the
@NatlParkService’s $11.6 billion maintenance backlog, but the Trump administration also wants to cut the National Park Service’s budget by more than $500 million.Show this thread -
If @SecZinke wants to get serious about addressing the NPS backlog without making the ational parks unaffordable for most Americans, they’ll back our bill.https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=press-releases&id=849561B5-DC6A-424C-B9B4-B5F2D5AD2105 …
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#NationalPark visitors spent approx. $18.4 billion in local economies in 2016, supporting more than 300,000 jobs. This fee increase would make it difficult for many Americans to visit and hurt communities around the parksShow this thread
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Why the hell do citizens have to pay to access public land, anyway?!
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So they can give money to the private concessioners /political donors who now run the parks.
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Are you actually expecting Trump cabinet members to know what they're talking about? Sheesh.
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Not to mention that the fees have been raised which makes it hard for most people to afford to go.
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