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Idaho Parks and Recreation outlines deferred maintenance, new reservation system and plans for added capacity
Summary
Director Susan Buxton updated the committee on Idaho Parks and Recreation's deferred maintenance work, trail upkeep, a new reservation system with dynamic pricing, hiring needs, Bear Lake land purchase and plans to add campsites, docks and day-use capacity.
Susan Buxton, director of the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation, gave an agency update covering deferred maintenance, trail maintenance, the department's new reservation system and staffing needs.
Buxton said Idaho Parks manages roughly 30 state parks, more than 600 facilities and about 65,000 acres. The department documents roughly 19,500 miles of trail (she noted federal inventories may be larger) with about 7,000 miles designated for all use, and it maintains roughly 2,000 miles of trail on mostly federally managed lands each year through its Trail Rangers program. The department also supports about 5,500 miles of groomed snowmobile trail statewide.
Buxton described about $165 million in deferred-maintenance work the department has advanced in the last four years and said the…
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