National Parks Traveler: The $1 Billion Question: Is the Private Sector Up to the Centennial Campaign?

National Parks Traveler: The $1 Billion Question: Is the Private Sector Up to the Centennial Campaign?: "The $1 Billion Question: Is the Private Sector Up to the Centennial Campaign?

The president's National Parks Centennial Initiative is still but a dream, nothing more than dried ink on paper and spoken words that are now but memories. For sure, there is excitement building around this heady concept to raise an extra $3 billion for the national park system by 2016, when the National Park Service turns 100, and lots of behind-the-scenes planning to make this drive a reality.
But there are huge impediments to the challenge. Congress is the major one. Without its approval and authorization, the fund-raising program that would match $100 million of private dollars with $100 million of federal appropriations each and every year for the next decade is nothing but a grandiose vision."