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ByBrettZongker The Associated Press WASHINGTON Afternearly 100 years, the National Park Service holds some of the country's most beau- tiful and historic places, though it also suffers from an $11 billion backlog of un- funded maintenance and a visitor base that's aging and mostly white. With its centennial ap- proaching in 2016, the park service is launching a cam- paign Thursday to raise sup- port and court a younger, more diverse visitor base. First lady Michelle Obama and former first lady Laura Bush will co-chair the cam- paign, calling on Americans to "Find Your Park." Sustaining the parks and keeping them relevant to vis- itors far into the future is a challenge, park officials said. Many facilities date back 50 years or more and are in danger of failing, such as a 70-year-old water pipeline at theGrandCanyonthatbreaks regularlyandcouldcutoffthe water supply to the site, Na- tional Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis said. Lodg- ing at Glacier National Park needs a major overhaul, and the nearly 100-year-old Me- morial Bridge in Washington needs at least $150 million in repairs—morethantheagen- cy's entire annual construc- tion budget. Behind the scenes, offi- cials are seeking to expand fundraising through the Na- tional Park Foundation and bolster congressional sup- port to improve the parks. This is the third major campaign in the national parks' history. An outcry over deplorable park condi- tions in 1915 originally led to the creation of the Na- tional Park Service. In the 1950s, there were calls to close parks because of their neglected conditions. That inspired a campaign to re- build infrastructure and in- vite returning World War II veterans and their fam- ilies to visit parks, with the memorable slogan "See the USA in your Chevrolet." While the national parks counted 292 million visitors in 2014, those visitors tend to be older and whiter than the U.S. population overall. "If we were a business and that was our clientele, then over the long term, we would probably be out of business," Jarvis said. In studying public per- ceptions, park officials found many people think national parks are only in the West — places such as Yellowstone and Yosemite. They want people to under- stand that urban sites such as the Statue of Liberty, In- dependence Hall in Phila- delphia, Little Rock Central High School and the Lin- coln Memorial in Washing- ton are also national parks. Over the next year, an advertising campaign will show how people connect with their favorite parks. Corporate sponsors includ- ing American Express, REI and Humana also are sup- porting the effort with co- branded marketing. To broaden access to the parks, all fourth grade stu- dents and their families will get free admission to national parks during the next school year. VISITORS Pushfor Americans to 'Find Your Park' By Denise Lavoie The Associated Press BOSTON Prosecu- tors rested their case against Boston Mara- thon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Monday af- ter jurors in his federal death penalty trial saw gruesome autopsy pho- tos and heard a medical examiner describe the devastating injuries suf- fered by an 8-year-old boy killed in the 2013 ter- ror attack. At least three jurors cried and wiped their eyes with tissues as they looked at photos of Mar- tin Richard, who went to watch the marathon with his parents and siblings April 15, 2013, and was killed when the second of two pressure-cooker bombs exploded near the finish line. The boy's parents watched somberly from the second row of the courtroom. Bill Richard kept his arm around the shoulder of his wife, De- nise, throughout the tes- timony. Dr. Henry Nields, chief medical examiner for Massachusetts, said Martin received injuries to virtually every part of his body, including lac- erations of his liver, left kidney and spleen, bro- ken bones and third-de- gree burns. His stomach was also ruptured. Nields said he removed small nails, metal pel- lets, fragments of wood and black plastic from the boy's wounds. He also displayed the blood- stained, shredded cloth- ing that Martin was wearing when the bomb exploded. Tsarnaev's lawyer told the jury during opening statements that he par- ticipated in the bombings but that his older brother, Tamerlan, was the driving force behind the attack. Prosecutors believe the brothers were seeking re- taliation against the U.S. for wars in Muslim coun- tries. Three people were killed and more than 260 were injured in the bomb- ings. After the prosecu- tion rested its case, Tsarnaev's lawyers be- gan theirs. They have made it clear since tes- timony began March 4 that their strategy dur- ing the two-phase trial is not to win an acquit- tal for Tsarnaev but to save him from the death penalty. BOSTON TRIAL Prosecution rests its case against bomber By Meredith Somers and Lolita C. Baldor The Associated Press FORT MEADE, MD. Officers opened fire after two men dressed as women refused to stop a stolen car Mon- day at the National Secu- rity Agency gate at Fort Meade and then smashed into a police vehicle block- ing the road, officials said. One of the men died, and the other man and the offi- cer were hurt. A police officer and the other man in the vehicle also were hurt, the NSA said in a news release. In- vestigators have not yet de- termined how the man in the vehicle died, and the conditions of the wounded man and officer were not immediately clear. An FBI spokeswoman said earlier in the day that the incident was not be- lieved to be linked to ter- rorism. The NSA said the incident was contained to the vehicle control point area on the perimeter of the secure campus. A senior defense offi- cial said the two men were dressed as women. That of- ficial spoke on condition of anonymity because the of- ficial was not authorized to discuss an ongoing in- cident. The car that rammed the police vehicle had been sto- len Monday morning from a hotel in Jessup, Mary- land, said Mary Phelan, a spokeswoman for the How- ard County Police Depart- ment. She declined to name the hotel, citing the ongo- ing investigation, or re- lease any further details, referring all questions to the FBI. The NSA is headquar- tered on the sprawling Army installation near Bal- timore. The FBI is investigating and working with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Mary- land to determine if fed- eral charges are warranted, FBI spokeswoman Amy J. Thoreson said in an email. Local television showed two damaged vehicles near a gate and emergency workers loading an in- jured uniformed man into an ambulance. Aerial news images showed that one of the damaged vehicles was a white SUV marked "NSA Police." Its front end was crumpled, and the hood was up. The other was a dark, unmarked SUV. A building on the NSA campus was damaged by gunfire earlier this month. Authorities captured a man March 3 who they believe fired that night on the NSA site, as well as earlier at several nearby places and two moving vehicles. The suspect in that case, Hong Young, told police he heard voices directing him to fire on one of the occupied ve- hicles. The gate that serves as the NSA entrance is just off the Baltimore-Washing- ton Parkway, a scenic com- muter route. In addition to the NSA, Fort Meade is home to the Defense In- formation Systems Agency and the U.S. Cyber Com- mand. About 11,000 mili- tary personnel and about 29,000 civilian employees work on the property. MARYLAND NS A: 1 d ea d a er c ar r am s police vehicle at Fort Meade WJLA-TV—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS In this image made from video and released by WJLA-TV, authorities investigate the scene of a accident near a gate to Fort Meade, Md., on Monday. By Susan Montoya Bryan The Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. A pipeline project intended to bring billions of gallons of water a year to a drought- stricken section of eastern New Mexico represents a lifeline to parched commu- nities that are quickly run- ning out of water. The lifeline, however, might not reach the region for more than a decade, even though officials say some areas don't have that long before wells dry up. The slow pace of con- struction in what would be the state's most expensive infrastructure project to date underscores the chal- lenges faced by a number of states eyeing such projects. During the widespread drought, officials are strug- gling to finish large-scale water infrastructure proj- ects while populations are growing, drinking water resources are dwindling, and federal dollars are di- minishing. The federal government is responsible for paying about $3 billion to com- plete several rural water projects around the coun- try. The amount — ex- pected to grow by the time the work is done — repre- sents a fraction of the more than $600 billion needed to address the nation's wa- ter and wastewater needs over the next 20 years. That has left states and local water authori- ties scrambling to fill the financial void. Of the many pipeline proposals in the West, one calls for moving water from four remote valleys in eastern Nevada to Las Ve- gas to reduce the region's reliance on the Colorado River. Others call for pip- ing water from Lake Pow- ell to southeastern Utah and for taking water from Wyoming across Colora- do's Front Range and on to Denver. In New Mexico, offi- cials are desperate to head off the shrinking of the Ogallala aquifer, an un- derground supply of wa- ter that stretches through eight states and is being rapidly depleted along the Texas-New Mexico border. "People are going to have to understand that in the West, that old say- ing 'whiskey is for drink- ing, water is for fighting' — that's where we are right now," said Gayla Brumfield, chairwoman of the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority. The pipeline would fun- nel more than 5.3 billion gallons of water each year from the Ute Reservoir south to Clovis, Portales, Cannon Air Force Base and other small communities. It includes a $19 million intake system at the res- ervoir, pump stations and more than 150 miles of pipe that will serve about 70,000 people. The price for the Ute project has ballooned to more than $550 million, and the federal Bureau of Reclamation acknowl- edges it could end up cost- ing $750 million. The lure for communi- ties to pursue these costly infrastructure projects has been the promise of fed- eral funding, said Denise Fort, a water law expert and professor at the Uni- versity of New Mexico. "It's like a shiny red ap- ple and that can be hard to turn down," she said. Critics say the Ute proj- ect will do little to solve the region's drinking wa- ter woes and has only given way to bigger questions about the benefits and sus- tainability of high-dollar rural water projects that depend on shrinking riv- ers, reservoirs and aquifers. WESTERN DROUGHT Federal funds in short supply for rural water projects HOMAS GARCI — QUAY COUNTY SUN Construction crews work on a sha that will house an intake structure on the south shore of Ute Lake near Logan, N.M. 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