If the NPS does not have the funds to take care of what it already owns, then stop their push to take and take more private lands for more parks! Let it be so until all of our now National Parks are brought up to the standards they should be, were there is enough service personal to take care of the already owned lands, and where this maintainence will be maintained!
A previous poster also referred to this. What/where are recent private land purchases that have been turned into National Parks or Monuments, and how much was the outlay? I'm asking because I don't know.