A 2003 bequest to the Arizona State Parks Board will instead go into the state’s operating fund to help close a ballooning budget deficit, reports The Arizona Republic.

The nearly $250,000 gift from Alta Forest, a Danish immigrant who moved to Arizona in 1990, was at the time the largest ever to the Arizona parks system. The money went into the system’s donations fund, which is subject to reappropriation by the state legislators, who took control of half the fund last month as part of a $140-million package of budget cuts.