5th Annual Threatened And Endangered Parks | A 'Cost Center' To Be Scrapped?
De Soto National Memorial is the kind of place Interior Secretary Douglas Burgum has implied could be targeted in future cuts that would prioritize the 63 National Park System sites designated specifically as “national parks” over smaller locations he calls “cost centers” that take more money to operate than they bring in.
- By Jan Wesner Childs - February 1st, 2026






