Education programs the latest casualty of underfunding of National Parks, says Miller
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Thousands of California children are turned away from National Park education programs each year because the National Park Service has insufficient funding and staff to meet the demand, according to a new report released today by the nonpartisan National Parks Conservation Association. Rep. George Miller (D-Martinez), a member of the House Resources Committee and the panel’s former chairman, issued this statement today about the NPCA report:
“This important new report documents yet another casualty of the perennial underfunding of the National Parks Service. Because of a lack of federal investment, Yosemite, one of the NPS’ crown jewels, has been forced to cut its interpretive staff from five to one. And in recent years, Sequoia Kings Canyon has been forced to turn away almost 50 percent of the students and teachers who requested to be part of educational programs in the park. When the parks’ budgets are cut so severely that these kinds of changes are required, something is seriously wrong with our priorities. Parks offer invaluable educational opportunities, and schoolchildren in California and across the country should not be denied access to them.”
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