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National Parks Struggle With a Mounting Crisis: Too Many Visitors

The park system has a maintenance backlog of more than $11 billion dollars and President Trump has proposed a 13 percent cut to the service.

At the same time, park officials have identified the heat and floods of climate change as one of the system’s greatest perils. In Zion, as maximum temperatures in the summer have risen, the heat-intolerant American pika, a tiny mammal related to rabbits, has disappeared. Rangers call it a sign of what is likely to come: smaller streams, more frequent droughts and other shifts in the ecosystem.

By JULIE TURKEWITZ

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