"happening right now is that budget is being hijacked. Ed Sturley is with the National Parks Conservation Association. Why shouldn't DC benefit? I think it shouldn't be a choice. I mean, what we want to see is funding for all of our national parks. In President Trump's first term, Congress approved $6.5 billion to repair parks and public lands. But that funding ran out last year. Deferred maintenance only lasts so long before nature takes over. All the structures in this park are historical. So if you don't maintain them, that history goes away. A part of history they hope will live on."