JACKSON — On Friday morning, the usual hubbub of the Jenny Lake plaza was supplanted by a different kind of spectacle.

Tourists with floppy straw hats dangling from backpacks were replaced by federal lawmakers in suit jackets and aviator sunglasses. With the Tetons as a backdrop, U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, and five other members of the 45-person House Natural Resources Committee discussed ways to improve the Great American Outdoors Act, which sunsets at the end of this month and will need to be reauthorized.

More than $5 billion has been spent on deferred maintenance over the past five years, and about $23 billion of deferred maintenance projects remain.

The landmark bill, signed into law during the first Trump presidency, allocated $1.6 billion annually toward deferred maint

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