The National Park Service recorded some 323 million visits to its 433 parks, properties, battlefields, and monuments last year. Author and conservationist Wallace Stegner once declared national parks America’s “best idea,” but the administration “is treating our treasures like anything but,” said John Garder of the nonprofit National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA). How many national parks workers have been laid off? “It shouldn’t just be all at one park at the expense of the entire national park system.” Guardrails won’t be replaced along a cliff edge deemed a “significant safety hazard for visitors” at Colorado’s Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, and crumbling walls along a scenic drive won’t be fixed at Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park.