Conservation groups are claiming parks like Glacier National Park are suffering from maintenance cuts while the Trump Administration siphons off funding for other Park Service projects in and around Washington, D.C.

The Center for Western Priorities recently released a list of what the administration is calling “low priority” projects for big parks across the West.

In Glacier, for example, there were 16 items trimmed, according to a list obtained by the Center for Western priorities.

Some things on the list are fairly innocuous, like 3,000 tons of crushed gravel, for example.

Other cuts add to the already significant maintenance backlog in the park the Center for Western Priorities charges, including:

• Rehabilitating sewer  lift stations at the Rising Sun Boat dock and the Fish Creek campground.

• Repairing part of the septic system that serves the Two Medicine Campground, employee housing and  concessions area.

• Replacing bridge decks on the North Lake McDonald Road. The decks were damaged during the Howe Ridge Fire and are in need of replacement.

• Update the St. Mary visitor center displays that have been in place for more than 10 years and have seen damage over the years.

Other items are for equipment repairs. For example, a couple of generators don’t work and need repairs, a crane needs repairs and one new employee housing cabin is done, but doesn’t have any furniture.

The list, an internal database that was leaked, includes thousands of other items that have been cut from parks across the country.

One item on the list that isn’t actually held up by funding is a cabin that was built by the Columbia Falls High School shop students for Glacier. The list claims the cabin, which is finished, is sitting at the high school because there isn’t funding to move it to Many Glacier  where it will be used for employee housing.

In this case, the cabin hasn’t been moved because of width restrictions on a bridge across the Middle Fork at Walton,  explained Tagen Vine, executive director of the Glacier National Park Conservancy. The bridge has seen rehabilitation work most of the summer and had a 10-foot width restriction, so trucks couldn’t get through. The Conservancy is instrumental in funding the work on cabins by the high school and has been for years. The cabin will be moved once the bridge is open to wider traffic, Vine noted.

The cuts were first reported by the Associated Press in August, but the actual list was released this month.

“So much on these lists show how scattershot and clueless,” the administration is, charged Aaron Weiss, executive director of the Center for Western Priorities.

He claimed that funds the parks collect from entrance fees are being diverted to projects in Washington, such as the reflecting pool repairs at the Washington Monument which have cost millions. The administration, at one point claimed vandals had cut the liner to the pool, but it was later revealed it was improperly installed after David Hearn, a former Olympic canoeist was charged with a felony for allegedly pulling on the liner.

It was later found that the liner itself was improperly installed and Hearn was exonerated and the case permanently dismissed, despite the objections by the Trump Administration that Hearn and others vandalized the liner, even after an Inspector General’s report found otherwise.

The latest controversial Trump project in Washington involves cutting down hundreds of trees on a government-owned golf course so it could be reconstructed.

Earlier this summer, the Washington Post reported that Major League Baseball was considering having a baseball game in Grand Teton National Park. But once the story broke, the idea was squashed due to public outcry.

Montana Sen. Steve Daines’ office spoke to the cuts.

“Protecting Montana’s parks and public lands is one of Daines’ top priorities, and our office remains in close contact with Superintendent Roemer about projects in Glacier,” a spokeswoman said.