VINP entrance fees will not go up
The Virgin Islands National Park is not on the National Parks Service’s preliminary list of parks that will raise entrance fees. Most of the money collected at Trunk Bay, and at Annaberg and from mooring fees, stays on St. John, though about 20% of it goes to Washington.
The VI National Park’s fiscal 2006 budget was $4.7 million. The President’s FY2008 budget for National Parks (390 parks in all) is $2.4 billion. That’s a record by the way. The VINP also gets $400,000 a year from the Friends of the Virgin Islands National Park (that means from you) in the form of grants and projects.
Our National Parks system turns 100 in 9 years. Read about the President’s initiatives here. (That’s a first. We linked to the White House. We’ll send Laura a T-shirt.)
May 17th, 2007 19:17
OK, what’s the catch? I bet this money is coming from new logging and mining leases within the National Parks…