"America's national parks would hire fewer seasonal staffers and put off all but the most pressing maintenance work under President Barack Obama's fiscal 2013 budget, advocates say.
The president's $2.6 billion request for the National Park Service is $13.5 million higher than what Congress gave the agency in fiscal 2012.
But the increase would be eaten up by costlier insurance premiums, higher rents and other costs of doing business, according to park service spokesman Jeffrey Olson."
how about closing overseas military bases instead?.......from federal times....
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