Congress must act now to protect America’s national parks and our heritage

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From Acadia’s rocky Atlantic coastline to Glacier’s snowcapped valleys, our national parks are America’s crown jewels, admired at home and abroad. Our parks represent more than natural beauty, however. They embody our history, our freedoms and our future. It's our responsibility to ensure they remain a critical part of these shared values.

All of these places, large and small, tell the story of America: where families gather to camp and fish, where veterans reflect at historic battlefields and where local economies thrive on outdoor recreation and tourism. In recent years, we’ve made progress toward maintaining the national parks to make them safer, more modern and better equipped to handle hundreds of millions of visitors