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In a ceremony held at the White House on Tuesday, President Trump signed the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA), enacting one of the largest investments in public lands in American history.

Credit: NPS

Funding for America’s public lands is closer to becoming a reality after the Senate’s passage of the Great American Outdoors Act, which provides funding to cover billions of dollars of backlogged maintenance projects at national parks and public lands.

Maintenance projects at Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone National Park.

Conservation on federal lands received strong bipartisan support today as landmark legislation for funding and maintenance passed out of the Senate.

Glacier National Park

The U.S. Senate is on track early next week to pass the Great American Outdoors Act, a bill designed to address the nearly $12 billion-dollar maintenance backlog facing public lands nationwide and to fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). The bipartisan effort has been led by Sens. …

Chaco Canyon ruins

Photo Credit: NPS/John Scherer.

This is the third in a series of four stories profiling national parks. Read our first story on Mesa Verde National Park here, our second story on Glacier National Park here, and our fourth story on Arches and Canyonlands National Parks here. —– Many National Parks highlight American history or …

Glacier National Park

This is the second in a series of four stories profiling national parks. Read our first story on Mesa Verde National Park here, our third story on Chaco Culture National Historical Park here, and our fourth story on Arches and Canyonlands National Parks here. —– Covering 1,583 sq. miles of …