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Total Economic Value of US National Park Service Estimated to be $92 Billion: Implications for Policy. Linda Bilmes, 2016, Paper, "America’s national parks “are the best idea we ever had.” So said Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Wallace Stegner. A new survey suggests Americans also consider the National Park Service (both the parks, and the associated programs of the agency which runs them) to be of the most valuable assets we ever had—worth some $92 billion a year." Link