Parks and Recreation: Limited Progress Made in Documenting and Mitigating Threats to the Parks

摘要

In 1980 the National Park Service reported more than 4,000 threats to the natural and cultural resources of the national park system, from both within and outside park borders. The following year in response to a congressional request, the Park Service developed a strategy to prevent and mitigate the problems identified in its report. The Chairman Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation, House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, asked GAO to determine among other things, what progress the Park Service has made in identifying, monitoring, and mitigating threats and how its resource management needs are reflected in the parks' resource management plans and Park Service budgets.