Great American Outdoors Act National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund Newsroom

On Wednesday, December 4, Bureau of Indian Education Director Tony Dearman joined a celebration to break ground on a campus modernization project at Many Farms High School funded by the Great American Outdoors Act National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund.

A GAOA LRF funded Maintenance Action Team (MAT) is providing repairs at Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge to restore one mile of stream, create two off-channel wetlands, replace dilapidated control structures, and replace the fish passage barrier with a bridge. At the end of the project, they will have restored 201 acres of marsh and stream habitat, including improved fish passage.

Two major Mount Rainier National Park construction projects starting in 2025 will replace decades-old crumbling infrastructure in the park’s popular Ohanapecosh Campground and improve travel through the park on State Route 123. The Ohanapecosh Campground project is partly funded through the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA), Recreation Fee revenue and the National Park Foundation.

The Texas White House, home of 36th President Lyndon Johnson, First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, and their family, is being rehabilitated with funding from the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA). The $14 million project will address maintenance/repair work, structural concerns, and deterioration of historic features in the house and the surrounding site.

The National Park Service awarded a $7.8 million contract to rehabilitate the water and wastewater distribution systems in Acadia National Park’s Schoodic District. Funded by the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA), the project improved critical utility systems, which were installed in the 1970s.

Visitors to Sequoia National Park, as well as park employees, will benefit from an upgraded water distribution system in the Lodgepole Campground area, thanks to a recently completed $11 million rehabilitation project. The project, which included $1.6 million provided by the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) Legacy Restoration Fund, delivers code-compliant services for potable water, firefighting, and water storage.

The Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) Legacy Restoration Fund recently financed a rehabilitation project on the Roof Trail at Jewel Cave National Monument. The Roof Trail is a quarter-mile path that helps visitors explore the relationship between the surface and subsurface resources of the monument. Rehabilitation of this trail is of importance to the monument as they strive to create increased accessibility.

The Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) Legacy Restoration Fund recently financed a rehabilitation project of the Captain Edward Penniman House at Cape Cod National Seashore. The project's preservation work improves the conditions of the house's historic features and facilitates the park’s ability to maintain the resource in good condition.

175 years after the establishment of Vancouver Barracks, the National Park Service (NPS) is ensuring a new chapter of public service for the first U.S. Army post in the Pacific Northwest. Funded by the Great American Outdoors Act Legacy Restoration Fund (GAOA LRF), the NPS has completed one of the most significant projects in this effort, rehabilitation of Building 993, one of the historic double infantry barracks lining the Parade Ground.

The Great America Outdoors Act (GAOA) has provided unprecedented funding to the National Park Service (NPS), to tackle big challenges like aging infrastructure and climate change. And guess what? Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is at the heart of the solutions of protecting our national parks and preserving them for future generations.