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Utah national parks have a $350M maintenance backlog. The Trump admin isn’t helping

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Southern Utah Bureau Reporting from the St. George area focused on local government, public lands and the environment, indigenous issues and faith and spirituality. Utah national parks have a $350M maintenance backlog. With small budgets and exploding visitation, parks often can’t afford to tackle everything it takes to maintain their roads, trails and other infrastructure.

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