releases: https://www.daines.senate.gov/2025/09/10/icymi-daines-op-ed-in-fox-news-americas-national-parks-are-at-a-crossroads-heres-how-congress-can-protect-them/
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| https://www.daines.senate.gov/2025/09/10/icymi-daines-op-ed-in-fox-news-americas-national-parks-are-at-a-crossroads-heres-how-congress-can-protect-them/ | ICYMI: Daines Op-Ed in Fox News: America’s National Parks Are at a Crossroads. Here’s How Congress Can Protect Them | 2025-09-10 | 2025 | 2025-09 | Republican | Senate | MT | Steve Daines | D000618 | www.daines.senate.gov | daines | https://www.daines.senate.gov/news/press-releases/ | scraper | U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines co-wrote an opinion piece with Senator Angus King (I-Maine) that was published by Fox News this morning. America’s National Parks Are at a Crossroads. Here’s How Congress Can Protect Them Senators Steve Daines, Angus King Fox News September 10th, 2025 From Acadia’s rocky Atlantic coastline to Glacier’s snowcapped valleys, our national parks are America’s crown jewels, admired at home and abroad. Our parks represent more than natural beauty, however. They embody our history, our freedoms and our future. It’s our responsibility to ensure they remain a critical part of these shared values… … All of these places, large and small, tell the story of America: where families gather to camp and fish, where veterans reflect at historic battlefields and where local economies thrive on outdoor recreation and tourism. In recent years, we’ve made progress toward maintaining the national parks to make them safer, more modern and better equipped to handle hundreds of millions of visitors each year — all thanks to the Legacy Restoration Fund (LRF), a federal program dedicated to repairing and restoring our parks. But the LRF is set to expire Sept. 30, 2025, and there is much more work to be done to honor the heritage and history the parks represent, especially ahead of America’s 250th anniversary. That is why we introduced the America the Beautiful Act to reauthorize the LRF. It continues the vision Congress advanced with the Great American Outdoors Act and builds on the strong bipartisan consensus that preserving our parks and public lands is a duty we all share — and a natural investment… …As we approach America’s 250th birthday, Congress has the chance to reaffirm a bipartisan promise by passing the America the Beautiful Act: to protect the lands, history and freedoms that unite us as a nation. Let’s not let this opportunity pass. Read the full piece on Fox News HERE. ### | 1 | 2026-03-30T01:40:41Z | 2026-04-06T19:10:29Z |