Re: Off-Limits Death Valley
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 9:22 am
Closed For Repairs? National Parks Need Maintenance Funding, And Soon
Although to some extent true, a lot of problems are bad management. With Wildrose Road all that needs to be done is have someone go through with a bulldozer and do a couple little touch ups and then post that the road is open to 4x4 with high clearance only and that absolutely no trailers are allowed. The cost of that would be next to nothing and it would solve what I see as the biggest local issue affecting Trona residents with DVNP.
LINK:
https://www.kcet.org/redefine/closed-for-repairs-national-parks-need-maintenance-funding-and-soon
Although to some extent true, a lot of problems are bad management. With Wildrose Road all that needs to be done is have someone go through with a bulldozer and do a couple little touch ups and then post that the road is open to 4x4 with high clearance only and that absolutely no trailers are allowed. The cost of that would be next to nothing and it would solve what I see as the biggest local issue affecting Trona residents with DVNP.
...the government has not adequately funded our national parks. This lack of directed funding has left some of our more than 400 coveted national park sites in perilous states. The National Park Service fiscal year 2015 maintenance statistics showed a $12 billion infrastructure repair backlog. What this means is that necessary maintenance on park infrastructure has been continuously left undone. In fact, the 2015 deferment increased by nearly half a billion from the previous fiscal year. Over a third of the maintenance backlog repair includes paved and unpaved roads. Mojave National Preserve is one such example. It has a $109 million dollar backlog, $103 million of that for road repairs. Death Valley National Park has a backlog of $159 million with $141 million in needed road repairs. And Joshua Tree National Park has a $3.8 million backlog for trail projects.
LINK:
https://www.kcet.org/redefine/closed-for-repairs-national-parks-need-maintenance-funding-and-soon