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Infographic Information
All of the information in this infographic was found in various resources to which I have linked at the end of this research. The following is the research and planning I conducted prior to designing the infographic.
For my infographic I will be using a statistical infographic. The Great American Outdoor Act provides money for the National Parks and Public Lands Restoration Fund as well as the Land and Water Conservation Fund. My goals through this project are to show where that money is coming from, where it is going and why it is needed.
The National Parks Service administers more than 400 parks across the country and has deferred maintenance of $11.92 billion as of 2018. The Great American Outdoor act has a couple of different places the money will go to and some stipulations about how it can be used by those administering bodies. The money will come from:
“Each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025, there shall be deposited in the Fund an amount equal to 50 percent of all energy development revenues due and payable to the United States from oil, gas, coal, or alternative or renewable energy development on Federal land and water credited, covered, or deposited as miscellaneous receipts under Federal law.”
The National Parks stimulate the economy, provide jobs, and contain sites of historical and cultural significance. Throughout the project I will use graphs and other statistics to show the amount of visitors key parks receive, how much maintenance deficit there is, the money allocated to various parts through the act and other key elements that provide information and background about the act.
The target audience is Americans between the ages of 25-34. This group is the 4th highest visitor of National Parks according to the NPS and tied for 2nd most visitation according to the 2010 census. This group already has a high visitation of the parks system and the group as they get older will likely visit parks in higher numbers as the older groups (but below 65) have slightly higher rates of visitation. This means if they want to continue to visit the parks they will need to be conserved for their future use.
I came across the Great American Outdoors Act which I knew little about but had heard of because I was at Arches National Park when it passed and the Parks did a free entry day because of it. After deciding on the Act I needed to learn more about it. I found an article that described it in lay-mans terms as well as the act originally from Congress. After reading both, a significant part about the act is deferred maintenance and I went back to the NPS website to find more about what that means. This provided me information about the maintenance as well as what parts of the parks need the most maintenance and which parks in particular have the most deferred maintenance.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/the-likely-impact-of-great-american-outdoors-act/
https://irma.nps.gov/STATS/SSRSReports/Park%20Specific%20Reports/Annual%20Park%20Recreation%20Visitation%20(1904%20-%20Last%20Calendar%20Year)?Park=GRSM
https://irma.nps.gov/STATS/SSRSReports/Park%20Specific%20Reports/Annual%20Park%20Recreation%20Visitation%20(1904%20-%20Last%20Calendar%20Year)?Park=GRCA
https://www.nps.gov/nationalmallplan/Documents/Media/NAMA%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/legal/great-american-outdoors-act.htm
https://www.perc.org/2020/08/04/the-great-american-outdoors-act-explained/
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/infrastructure/deferred-maintenance.htm
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/infrastructure/upload/NPS_DM_FactSheet-Infograph1_FINAL_508-1.pdf
https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/visitation-numbers.htm
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2020/08/04/national-parks-to-get-long-overdue-repairs
https://www.nps.gov/articles/nps-designations.htm
https://www.wilderness.org/sites/default/files/media/file/Fact%20sheet%20-%20Federal%20Energy%20Royalty%20Rates.pdf#:~:text=A%20royalty%20is%20the%20percentage,public%20lands%20is%2012.5%20percent.
For my infographic I will be using a statistical infographic. The Great American Outdoor Act provides money for the National Parks and Public Lands Restoration Fund as well as the Land and Water Conservation Fund. My goals through this project are to show where that money is coming from, where it is going and why it is needed.
The National Parks Service administers more than 400 parks across the country and has deferred maintenance of $11.92 billion as of 2018. The Great American Outdoor act has a couple of different places the money will go to and some stipulations about how it can be used by those administering bodies. The money will come from:
“Each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025, there shall be deposited in the Fund an amount equal to 50 percent of all energy development revenues due and payable to the United States from oil, gas, coal, or alternative or renewable energy development on Federal land and water credited, covered, or deposited as miscellaneous receipts under Federal law.”
The National Parks stimulate the economy, provide jobs, and contain sites of historical and cultural significance. Throughout the project I will use graphs and other statistics to show the amount of visitors key parks receive, how much maintenance deficit there is, the money allocated to various parts through the act and other key elements that provide information and background about the act.
The target audience is Americans between the ages of 25-34. This group is the 4th highest visitor of National Parks according to the NPS and tied for 2nd most visitation according to the 2010 census. This group already has a high visitation of the parks system and the group as they get older will likely visit parks in higher numbers as the older groups (but below 65) have slightly higher rates of visitation. This means if they want to continue to visit the parks they will need to be conserved for their future use.
I came across the Great American Outdoors Act which I knew little about but had heard of because I was at Arches National Park when it passed and the Parks did a free entry day because of it. After deciding on the Act I needed to learn more about it. I found an article that described it in lay-mans terms as well as the act originally from Congress. After reading both, a significant part about the act is deferred maintenance and I went back to the NPS website to find more about what that means. This provided me information about the maintenance as well as what parts of the parks need the most maintenance and which parks in particular have the most deferred maintenance.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/the-likely-impact-of-great-american-outdoors-act/
https://irma.nps.gov/STATS/SSRSReports/Park%20Specific%20Reports/Annual%20Park%20Recreation%20Visitation%20(1904%20-%20Last%20Calendar%20Year)?Park=GRSM
https://irma.nps.gov/STATS/SSRSReports/Park%20Specific%20Reports/Annual%20Park%20Recreation%20Visitation%20(1904%20-%20Last%20Calendar%20Year)?Park=GRCA
https://www.nps.gov/nationalmallplan/Documents/Media/NAMA%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/legal/great-american-outdoors-act.htm
https://www.perc.org/2020/08/04/the-great-american-outdoors-act-explained/
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/infrastructure/deferred-maintenance.htm
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/infrastructure/upload/NPS_DM_FactSheet-Infograph1_FINAL_508-1.pdf
https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/visitation-numbers.htm
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2020/08/04/national-parks-to-get-long-overdue-repairs
https://www.nps.gov/articles/nps-designations.htm
https://www.wilderness.org/sites/default/files/media/file/Fact%20sheet%20-%20Federal%20Energy%20Royalty%20Rates.pdf#:~:text=A%20royalty%20is%20the%20percentage,public%20lands%20is%2012.5%20percent.
Infographic Sketch
The above handwritten information is what I planned to include in the infographic and the sketch below is the general layout with key park features that I wanted to incorporate. I chose those particular park features as they are within some of the parks with the highest deferred maintenance.
Why the Great American Outdoors Act Matters to the National Parks
For the final infographic I chose a bright color scheme to make it eye-catching, but still utilized colors that could be found in, and represent the parks they were inspired by. For the body font I chose Gil Sans MT which I coordinated with the title font which is Gill Sans Ultra Bold, I wanted the body font to be easy to read as there is a lot of information, and the title font to be more fun and go with a retro parks theme but still go with the body.
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