Report Dec 18, 2008

Working Assets: Reinvesting in National Parks

Working Assets Report (2.97 MB)

This report highlights several of the more than $2.5 billion worth of job-creating projects in national parks and encourages Congress and the incoming Obama Administration to include national parks in economic recovery legislation to create jobs and restore our national treasures.

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