The Business of Scenery: Why America’s national parks need new management
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#2I cannot even find the article to read. Just a very small blurb above the clickbait ads by taboola or whatever.
(Chrome on Android)
Re: The Business of Scenery: Why America’s national parks need new management
#3I cannot even find the article to read. Just a very small blurb above the clickbait ads by taboola or whatever. (Chrome on Android)
I didn't have any trouble. Safari on macOS.
TLDR; National parks administration has been degraded severely under Obama and then Trump and at this point it's a mess mostly designed to make money from industry at the expense of preservation.
Re: The Business of Scenery: Why America’s national parks need new management
#4Get rid of scenic drives/viewpoints and park attendance would crater. Most trails that are more than a few miles long are rarely busy.
Re: The Business of Scenery: Why America’s national parks need new management
#5Get rid of scenic drives/viewpoints and park attendance would crater. Most trails that are more than a few miles long are rarely busy.
There is lots you can do to improve the preservation of the parks, but the article suggests that that is not the current goal and that the US currently prefers to make parks available to people to enjoy with cars, mountain bikes, and skidoos.
There is always a balance between preservation and use of the parks.
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#6Get rid of scenic drives/viewpoints and park attendance would crater. Most trails that are more than a few miles long are rarely busy.
Also ban smartphones. This would repel the other 50% who are only there with their narcisticks taking selfies for their Insta.
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#7hipsters ruin everything
literally my mantra
whether it's last years riots from people wearing 20 dollar red fist shirts from amazon, or jan 6th insurrection by the dude wearing some funky horn helmet thing, or ariel pink, or the guy from vice starting the proud boys, or trump complaining about the mainstream, or fyre festival, or even once you add some edgelordism to it like lil nas x....
hipsters ruin everything. like frank zappa said... america is superficial. no real culture, no real art, just fads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5WEU30Iods
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#8> one wonders these days about the greatness of the National Park Service, which, since the moment of its inception, has done nothing but encourage the human tide
Oh no. They encouraged Americans to go out, wonder at natural beauty, and do some light hiking. What an unforeseen tragedy.
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#9Get rid of scenic drives/viewpoints and park attendance would crater. Most trails that are more than a few miles long are rarely busy.
Indeed. It's not hard to get a wilderness permit in Yosemite (as long as you don't pick the same five trails everybody else does on a weekend) walk a few miles into the wilderness and see a handful of other people a day.
Doing anything with a parking spot is an absolute nightmare though.
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#10We can have wilderness. The eliteness of this article really bothers me. Why should we be trying to make parks less appealing to people. Again we have wilderness preserves in which we preserve wilderness, letting people experience natural beauty is a different but also good thing