National Parks and the Lack of Adequate # of Camp Sites

Lauren wrote:
As has been said, most of the money collected at National Parks goes to D C; then God only knows what REALLY happens to it.

Yes, the above statement has been said before, but repeating the statement doesn't make it any less incorrect. So here's a second verbatim listing of the relevant section of the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act followed by my actual experience with managing a program under it.

Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act - Section 7
7(c)(1)(A) RETENTION OF REVENUES.--Not less than 80 percent of the
recreation fees and site-specific agency pass revenues collected at a specific unit or area of a Federal land management agency shall remain available for expenditure, without further appropriation, until expended at that unit or area.
Reference

Having been a Recreation manager and managing the budget at "a local unit" I can say from actual experience that 80% of the funds DID stay at the local unit and were spent on recreation management, maintenance, and improvement of the area. The 20% of funds that were not retained at the unit went to other units that did not generate such a large revenue flow to help them with their recreation programs.