KENNEBEC JOURNAL • August 6, 2023
The National Park Service is in the forever business, and we have a responsibility to future generations to leave our national parks better than we found them. Park rangers regularly find ways to be good stewards of our public lands with extraordinarily limited resources. As the Department of the Interior celebrates the anniversary of the Great American Outdoors Act’s initial $6.5 billion investment in national parks over a five-year period, we cheer the critical foundation it provides for national parks across the country to address maintenance repair backlogs. The Act has funded two major projects in Acadia National Park: construction of a new maintenance facility and repair of a water and wastewater system on the Schoodic Peninsula. ~ Kevin Schneider, superintendent, Acadia National Park