National Park Backlog as much as $9 Billion

From the National Parks Traveler:

How Big Is The Park Service Backlog?

At the National Park Service, the number that for me spawns the most fascination is tied to the agency's maintenance backlog. Built partly of late on an estimated $600 million annual shortfall between what the agency needs and what it spends, it's quite an incredible number, ranging somewhere between $4.5 billion and $9 billion.
That's right. There's a $4.5 billion black hole of uncertainty right smack in the middle reflecting the unknown of just how financially bad off the agency is.

To get a better understanding of this deficit, I called Bruce Sheaffer, the comptroller of the National Park Service for better than three decades. And what he told me was very interesting.

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