Trump Plans to Offload National Park Sites, but States Don’t Want Them

'Trolling': Trump's Garden of Heroes plan leaves artists offended

Artists see a President Donald Trump’s plan to create a National Garden of American Heroes as “trolling” and not “very serious,” according to a Politico report. “It seems completely unworkable,” Daniel Kunitz, editor of Sculpture magazine, told Politico. The National Endowment for the Humanities is ...

States Push Back on Trump's Plan to Offload National Park Sites

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The gutting of the National Park Service

Why should the NPS be funding so many sites? And what would happen if some of those properties were transferred to state or tribal management?

Trump plans to offload national park sites, but states don’t want them

The White House is proposing to cut about $1.2 billion from the National Park Service’s budget, including $900 million from park operations.

Trump plans to offload national park sites, but states don’t want them

Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve sprawls north from Everglades National Park over 729,000 acres of swamp, an ancient forest that protects the endangered Florida panther and the pristine waters of the Everglades — the source of drinking water for millions…