PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • June 18, 2021
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland detailed a host of improvements and investments at Maine’s only national park during a visit to the state on Friday. Haaland touted the improvements on a day she toured Acadia National Park, one of the biggest nature tourism drivers in the state. The investments in the park include $7.6 million in Great American Outdoors Act funding to rehabilitate water systems in Acadia’s Schoodic District, which she said are beyond their useful lives. The proposed 2022 federal budget also includes a $1.3 million funding boost for natural resources stewardship and conservation at the park. The interior department said the National Park Service is also working on improvements for visitors of Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, which was created in 2016. The 2022 budget proposal includes $675,000 to expand visitor services and resource management at the northern Maine monument.