Obama to visit national parks for Father’s Day

This article tracks President Obama and his family’s Fathers’ Day celebration through our country’s beautiful national parks. The First family celebrated the President by, hiking, boating, and taking in the breath taking scenery at Yosemite, Kenai’s Fjords, and other locations. The Obama’s visit is helping raise awareness to the budget deficits facing our national parks that affect maintenance and crucial staffing issues.

Key Takeaways:

• With the National Park Service turning 100 in August, Obama wants to highlight the agency’s preservation measures and make the case for fully funding its efforts.
• The U.S. Interior Department, which oversees the park service, reported Friday that national park sites and other non-park service sites under its authority hosted an estimated 443 million recreational visits last year, a 20 million-visit increase from the year before.
• The visits were responsible for $45 billion in spending and supported about 396,000 jobs across the country, according to the report.

“President Barack Obama and his family are heading west Friday to visit two of the United States’ national parks for Father’s Day weekend.”

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