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Republican Senator Asks Zinke To Drop Surge-Pricing Scheme For Park Fees

A Republican senator from Colorado is pushing back against Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's surge-pricing scheme that would more than double entrance fees at 17 popular national parks during the height of the travel seasons, urging the secretary instead to work towards a "legislative solution to the maintenance backlog."

Zinke Wants Higher National Park Fees While Grazing Fees On Public Lands Fall

While Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has not publicly changed his position on relying on surge pricing in an effort to chisel away at the maintenance backlog facing the National Park Service, the cost ranchers pay to graze their livestock on public lands in the West is falling by 25 percent.

Former POWs To Speak At Andersonville National Historic Site

On Sunday, April 8, former POWs, veterans, and others will gather at Andersonville National Historic Site in Georgia to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the National Prisoner of War Museum. Featured speakers will include Seymour Lichtenfeld, held prisoner by Germany during World War II, and David Eberly, a former POW during Desert Storm.

Zion National Park, Cedar Breaks And Pipe Spring National Monuments Benefitting Greatly From Friends Group

Fortunately offsetting the relative flatlining of the National Park Service's budget is the infusion of dollars raised by nonprofit friends groups such as the Zion Natl Park Forever Project, which has made an investment of roughly $1 million in Zion National Park and Cedar Breaks and Pipe Spring national monuments this past year.