The Park Service’s proposal to double entry fees could fix its maintenance problem 161 years from now

The National Park Service raised eyebrows this week with a plan to more than double, and in some cases nearly triple, entrance fees at the nation's most popular national parks. The new changes would affect 17 national parks and potentially bring in an additional $70 million a year, according to the Park Service, which says the increases are necessary to address the $11.3 billion maintenance backlog in the federal parks.At a rate of $70 million a year it would take more than 161 years for that extra annual revenue to wipe out the entire $11.3 billion backlog — to say nothing of the maintenance needs that would arise between now and then. On top of that, the fees would offset less than one-quarter of the $297 million Park Service budget cut proposed by the Trump administration...more

 If this goes as usual, fees will go up and the budget won't be cut.
By raising their fees the Parkies will say they have made a 'good faith' effort to partially fund their maintenance backlog and use that to lobby Congress for additional appropriations. Will that work? You bet it will.